Make Spain a force in semiconductor design and manufacture. This is the goal the government has set with the approval of the tenth—and most ambitious—Strategic Project for Recovery and Economic Transformation to date, called Perte Chip.
Total,
they have planned to allocate 12,250 million euros until 2027 —Most of these will come from the addendum to the recovery plan to be adopted in the second half of 2022—which will be articulated through grants and non-refundable transfers to companies participating in four strategic axes.
The first of these is to develop Spanish scientific capacity, with the aim of advancing R&D and integrated photonics, as well as quantum chips. 500 million will be allocated to Spanish companies on this item. The second goes to the design of microprocessors, test lines and a training network.
The third and most important concerns the creation of production facilities in Spain, known as ‘foundries’, capable of producing chips of less than 5 nanometers, putting them at the forefront of the industry. For other strategic industries, such as the automotive industry, it is also intended to produce larger components.
Finally, the fourth axis aims to stimulate the information and communication technology (ICT) industry, with an incentive scheme for companies in this sector to gain access to projects of high interest in the EU (IPCEI).
The first vice president,
Nadia Calvino, stressed that this initiative is part of the objectives of the European Union, which approved the European chip law in February with the aim of achieving a global market share of 20% of these components and thus reducing dependence on other countries, such as Taiwan , USA, Korea or Japan. Currently, this indicator is around 10%.
For Calviño – who chaired the Council of Ministers because Pedro Sánchez is currently attending the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland) – the approval of this Perte is especially relevant for the Spanish car industry, which adds up to a 15.4% decline in the first third of the year precisely because of the scarcity of these components.
“We have already had preliminary contacts with a positive result,” said Calviño, “In Davos,
Pedro Sánchez seeks contact with semiconductor companies who are interested in the opportunities that exist in Spain and now that the Perte has been launched, we intend to be present in all European processes in which we can participate».
Some of the entities that will play a key role in the Perte Chip are the National Supercomputing Center of Barcelona, the integrated photonics and quantum computing departments of the polytechnic universities of Madrid and Valencia; the CSIC or the public-private consortium Quantum Spain.
Source: La Verdad
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