Wednesday, December 1st 2021
The EU is Aiming for 20 Percent of Leading Edge Chips to be Made in EU by 2030
According to Margrethe Vestager—the European Commissioner for Competition—the EU is hoping to be able to produce up to 20 percent of leading edge chips within the EU by 2030. Today that number is around 10 percent, down from some 40 percent back in the 1990's.
However, it seems like the EU has understood that it can not be self-reliant on semiconductor parts, no matter how many companies it can entice to build foundries within the EU. However, the EU is very much looking at getting more chip production happening inside the union, especially for the automotive industry. At the same time, the EU understands that it has to work with global suppliers of chips, especially what is being referred to as legacy technology in the interview with CNBC.
The EU is also working with the US to figure out why the current chip shortage happened, to try and prevent it from happening again in the future. At the same time, the EU is looking at investing in foundries, in cooperation with European businesses, while at the same time trying to avoid giving out unfair subsidies. There's obviously no quick fix to the current supply problems, but it's at least clear that the EU is taking the issue seriously and that its working towards making sure that at least a certain amount of chips and components used by companies in its member countries will be made within the union.
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Source:
CNBC
However, it seems like the EU has understood that it can not be self-reliant on semiconductor parts, no matter how many companies it can entice to build foundries within the EU. However, the EU is very much looking at getting more chip production happening inside the union, especially for the automotive industry. At the same time, the EU understands that it has to work with global suppliers of chips, especially what is being referred to as legacy technology in the interview with CNBC.
Image from Wikimedia Commons.
18 Comments on The EU is Aiming for 20 Percent of Leading Edge Chips to be Made in EU by 2030
As for the EU working with the US to figure out why the current chip shortage happened. I dont think those companies need to disclose shit to the EU or the US because its Nanyabusiness (or 'their' business) unless the company is Intel or maybe possibly ARM. TSMC, Samsung or whoever with Fabs dont have to tell anyone anything if it thinks it breaches their clients data privacy.
I mean the EU could sanction TSMC but unless the EU want to go back to the 1980s where people were like the flintstones, driving analogue cars and beating dinosaurs with a stick of wood.
this is the EU we're talking about.
USA Innovates
China Duplicates
EU Legislates
On the political stage china, india, america, and russia all have more power then the EU does.The EU itself wont have the financial power to do so, it will have to come from its member states, and will be done through legislation, not directly through EU coffers.I doubt many will. Perhaps TSMC, if they can get a good enough deal, just to get away from relying on taiwan. I'd be surprised if these companies wanted to invest in the EU versus poland or hungary, which have far lower development costs and are much friendlier to businesses.
TSMC 7nm or even 10nm equivalent process nodes are not where the industrial production problems are coming from outside of GPUs.
It tends to be things like LCD / OLED drivers and embedded processors, PMICs aka power management ICs, and RF/5G related chips. These are mostly done on older nodes like 40-150nm, using older 100mm and 200mm wafers.
In fact, Apple production shortages happened specifically due to touch screen controllers.
---Vs the already US backdoors *cough* cisco *cough*