A look at Germany's “Silicon Saxony”, which accounts for one in three chips made in Europe, as the EU aims to double its global chip market share to 20% by 2030
Cluster that began in communist East Germany now seen as strategic asset amid supply chain crisis Tweets: @chassnews , @joemillerjr , @cornelban73 , @mamdorsky , and @cszabla Tweets: Anne-Sylvaine Chassany / @chassnews : Until a shortage of semiconductors throttled the supply of everything from cars to games consoles, few in Europe gave much thought to the GlobalFoundries factory in Dresden, the EU's largest chip plant.' via @FT @JoeMillerJr https://www.ft.com/... Joe Miller / @joemillerjr : “[Chipmaker] Qimonda wasn't saved, [carmaker] Opel was saved. Whose belts are standing still right now due to the lack of semiconductors?” I went to Europe's largest semiconductor cluster, where companies say they hold the key to 🇪🇺's tech sovereignty. https://www.ft.com/... Cornel Ban / @cornelban73 : So it turns out that all that East German engineering offensive was not for nought. Its legacy is a semiconductor superpower. They now call it Silicon Saxony. Red Prometheus would have been less derivative. @adam_tooze @MkBlyth https://www.ft.com/... Martin Arnold / @mamdorsky : ‘Silicon Saxony’ aims to be EU chipmaking hub - the former east German region accounts for one in every three chips made in Europe and aims to be at the heart of EU efforts to increase local chip production. Fab piece by @JoeMillerJr https://www.ft.com/... Csz / @cszabla : “the region's semiconductor cluster rose up in the 1990s, when the area was awash with unemployed microelectronics experts trained by the former German Democratic Republic” you never know when and how the seeds planted by state socialism will blossom! https://www.ft.com/...