The Valencian regional parliament unanimously approves the initiative in which the University of Valencia and technology companies such as Analog Devices, from the Parc Científic de la Universitat de València business area, participate. The Valencian Community will boost its brand through a marketing campaign
All the groups with parliamentary representation in the Valencian Parliament voted in favor in Thursday's plenary session for the Valencian Region to implement a Valencian Semiconductor Strategy, following the proposal of a European Law on Chips, from which derives the approval of the PERTE of Chips, Microelectronics and Semiconductors in May 2022 by the Council of Ministers, the largest state instrument of public funding, endowed with 12,250 million euros, which has been promoted so far in Spain in support of a specific sector of the economy.
In the same way, the Valencian Community has the best developed industrial ecosystem of semiconductors at the state level. The motion approved today aims to place Valencia at the forefront of national leadership in the application of these instruments and in the first position in attracting funds. Available studies on the importance of the sector in the Comunitat show that the metropolitan area of the city of Valencia is the only area in the country where there are five microchip design centers linked to other multinational companies in this strategic sector.
With 50 percent of all national human resources in microelectronics and 60 percent of those in integrated photonics, more than half of all specialized employees in the sector in our country work in the Valencian territory. This concentration of talent and technological capacity places the Valencian Community as the main pole of reference in the most critical segments of the entire value-added cycle of the sector: talent and microchip design.
"It has been very gratifying to see how all the parliamentary groups have supported the initiative and also to have done so side by side with other companies in the sector, since we all share the same ambition that Spain and in particular, the Valencian Community, grow in competitiveness and opportunities for our young people", Javier Calpe, director of the design center of Analog Devices
Participation of the UV and the Parc Científic
Along with the performance of an intense package of executive measures to support the Valencian semiconductor sector, the text, approved at the request of the Valencian industry, grouped in the Valencia Silicon Cluster initiative, includes as a singularity the immediate launch of a communication campaign to promote the Valencian Community as the best developed ecosystem in the country in the field of microelectronics and integrated photonics.
From the academic and innovation environment of the University of Valencia, Isabel Vázquez, vice rector of Studies, and Javier Calpe, director of the Analog Devices design center at the Parc Científic de la Universitat de València, attended the event. "It has been very pleasing to see how all the parliamentary groups have supported the initiative and also to have done so side by side with other companies in the sector, since we are all united by the same ambition that Spain and in particular, the Valencian Community, grow in competitiveness and opportunities for our young people," said Calpe.
The president of Valencia Silicon Cluster, Mayte Bacete, director of MaxLinear Hispania, also shows her satisfaction for this new boost to the sector and in particular for considering that "the Valencian society as a whole has made this project its own, beyond any distinction, as evidenced by the support of all political groups in parliament to this initiative arising from the business environment and civil society".
"Valencian society as a whole has made this project its own, beyond any distinction, as evidenced by the support of all political groups in parliament to this initiative arising from the business environment and civil society", Mayte Bacete, president of Valencia Silicon Cluster
Valencia Silicon Cluster
Valencia Silicon Cluster (VaSiC) is an initiative that emerged from the business and academic environment in response to the need to generate a positioning of the Valencian semiconductor ecosystem with respect to the Spanish PERTE initiative of microelectronics, integrated photonics and semiconductors. The founding core of this initiative includes the companies MaxLinear, Analog Devices, Bosch, ams Osram, VLC Photonics/Hitachi, Das Photonics, IPronics and Gobernanza Industrial, as well as the Universitat Politècnica de València and the Universitat de València.
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