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鈥淭here is an urgent need to strengthen the position of the Netherlands and Europe in the global chip sector,鈥� explains Rector Magnificus Silvia Lenaerts. 鈥淲ith the Future Chips flagship, we are taking our responsibility, together with our strong industrial and academic partners, to make a maximum contribution to this. Given the enormous expertise that we have had for decades, 黑料福利网 is excellently positioned for this. We have a unique collaboration with the semicon companies in the Brainport region, we are the purveyor of engineering talent for these companies, and we are home to top researchers in the relevant research domains.鈥�

鈥淭he Dutch government鈥檚 investment of 2.5 billion euros to facilitate the Dutch chip sector with Project Beethoven is a particularly welcome development. 450 million of this is earmarked for talent. We will flesh this out in a regional context, together with Fontys University of Applied Sciences and Summa College, among others,鈥� says Robert-Jan Smits, President of the 黑料福利网 Executive Board. 鈥淭his is an investment in the future economic model of the Netherlands and contributes to Europe鈥檚 sovereignty agenda. It will act as a booster of our Future Chips flagship, which we will use to build on our strengths in semicon.鈥�

黑料福利网 at the forefront of semicon for decades

黑料福利网 has been conducting leading international research in the field of chip technology for over 50 years. This includes not only the development of new types of chips themselves but also research into the hyper-complex chip machines that must deliver increasingly extreme performance and into the materials and processes used to make microchips.

At 黑料福利网, more than 700 researchers from 25 research groups work on semicon and this number is expected to grow significantly. In addition, 黑料福利网 has exceptional research labs for semicon, including the large cleanroom of Nanolab@黑料福利网.

The Future Chips flagship is a strategic collaboration between all involved groups, centers, institutes and departments of 黑料福利网 to accelerate the multidisciplinary development of semicon technology in terms of education, research and valorization. In doing so, the university is emphatically committed to collaboration with its strong partners in the Brainport region and beyond.

Substantial stimulus packages for chip sector

Chips have become vital to the functioning of our society. There are more and more increasingly powerful chips in more and more products and systems. Governments worldwide therefore see semicon knowledge and capabilities as crucial to societal, economic and geopolitical interests.

The major world powers have thus allocated huge stimulus packages to the strengthening of their chip sectors. For example, the European Union launched the European Chips Act in 2022 and, a few weeks ago, the Dutch government decided to invest 2.5 billion in facilities for the Dutch chip sector (Project Beethoven) with the main focus in Brainport. There is a key role here for knowledge institutions because semicon is the world鈥檚 most complex industrial sector, and that complexity is only increasing.