An acceleration and incubation programme for start-ups receives €220 million in 2025 calls planned by Chips joint undertaking
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Funding to help start-ups take advantage of the EU’s new silicon chip design platform dominates this year’s calls from the Chips joint undertaking (JU), a partnership formed in 2023 to implement the EU Chips Act. More than half of the budget assigned to Chips Act priorities in the 2025 calls will support work relating to the platform.
The aim of the Chips Act is to double the EU’s share of the global semiconductor market to 20% by 2030. Key to that will be supporting the development of fabless chip makers, which design semiconductors but outsource their fabrication. Fabless companies make up 50% of global integrated circuit revenues, but Europe’s share of this market is less than 1%.
The EU’s cloud-based chip design platform, which should be ready in 2026, is intended to give easy access to intellectual property libraries, electronic design automation tools, and support services. These should allow…
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