European Commission starts alliance for production of advanced chips

The European Commission is launching an alliance to promote the production of advanced chips. The alliance must investigate ways in which chip production can be increased and how Europe can become more independent in this area.

The European Commission announces announced the new semiconductor alliance along with a second cloud technology alliance. Public and private parties can sign up for these initiatives. To do so, they must be established in the EU and meet a number of cybersecurity criteria. The committee then determines which parties will join the two alliances.

With the semiconductor alliance, the European Commission initially wants to investigate what is needed to improve the production of advanced chips. Chip shortages continue worldwide and Europe is no exception. In addition to solving these shortages in the long term, the European Commission also wants to use the alliance to look at how Europe can compete more effectively.

The committee would like the EU to develop production capacities for producing 5nm to 2nm nodes. Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said “the semiconductor alliance aims to redistribute semiconductor manufacturing capacity globally and ensure that there is capacity in Europe to produce the most advanced chips of 2nm or less”.

The alliance’s arrival was announced earlier this year as part of the EU’s plan to strengthen its chip sector. Manufacturers reacted differently to the European Commission’s initiative. It remains to be seen who will join and what this alliance can mean for the development of semiconductors in the EU.

The second alliance focuses on the development of cloud services. Here too, the European Commission considers it important for the EU to become more independent. With the help of the alliance, new services and technologies must be developed for both consumers and businesses.