The first Spanish chips factory, Innofabis already underway. With an investment of almost 400 million euros, Innofab will become A pioneer factory in chips preproduction in Europebecause it is not going to copy Taiwan or the United States, but is going to focus on the design of different and innovative chips.
After the threat of Donald Trump’s tariff in critical matters such as artificial intelligence or Chips manufacture.
INNOFAB will be a single chips preproduction factory in Europefunded by the Spanish State and the Generalitat of Catalonia. It will be located in Cerdanyola del Vallés, in Barcelona, Next to the Alba syrrtron. And this is what makes it unique.
What is a chips preproduction factory
The Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB), the Institute of Fotonic Sciences of Barcelona (ICFO) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) participate in the project.
Innofab It does not intend to compete with the factories of Taiwan or the United States, because they get a lot of distance. What you are going to do is Design chips that do not exist, potentially more powerful than current.
That is why this chips factory has been built next to the Alba syrurtron, which you can see in the news opening photo. It will also have the help of the Mare Nostrum supercomputer.
A syncrotron is a particle accelerator that remains in a closed orbit. It is the only one that exists in Spain.
According to account The avant -gardeInnofab will take advantage of the syncrotron to develop chips that take advantage of quantum properties of electrons such as spin instead of electric charge, or work with photons instead of electrons. They will also use innovative materials, such as graphene.
The objective is to develop chips that can compete with the current ones, with technology that does not exist today. Thus, the distances of a single jump can be shortened, instead of dedicating years to clone the existing technologies of Asian or North American chips.
It is important to keep in mind that Innofab is not a large -scale chip factory, but A chips preproduction factorywhat is called lab-to-fab. The intermediate step between researchers and series factories.
Innofab The developments of the research centers will become an operational chip, and then that chip will be manufactured in the corresponding factories. Here European collaboration will be essential, since innovative chips manufactured in Spain can be made in mass in Germany, France, or another country of the European Union.
INNOFAB will be the first chips factory installed in Spain. Its construction has already begun, and it is expected to be operational in 2028. The awakening of Europe is underway.
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