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Latest News
EBSCON 2026: Crossroads Europe at a Turning Point a follow-up report
Graz/Villach, 9 October 2026. Europe is at a turning point when it comes to semiconductors, AI and strategic technologies. EBSCON, the leading trade fair for the European semiconductor and electronics industry, held in Graz on 7 October 2026, was therefore themed Crossroads Europe at a Turning Point. The central...
Equipping students and industry with practical RISC-V expertise
The 2026 edition of the SCCC course RISC-V on a chip in three days attracted a lot of applications from both students and employees at companies throughout Europe and beyond. A group of twenty participants were admitted and got to build their own physical RISC-V processors and run real hardware...
Webinar Series on Semiconductor Training Offers#1
The first aCCCess webinar of the semiconductor training offers series brought together ChipNL and CC Chip.si to introduce their training offers and highlight opportunities for professionals, organisations and other stakeholders looking to strengthen their semiconductor knowledge and skills....
Open Calls
Open Access to FAMES Pilot Line
Opens:Mar 09, 2026 00:00 CET
Closes:Dec 31, 2026 23:59 CET
The FAMES Pilot Line accepts Spontaneous User Requests year-round, offering organisations rapid access to its advanced semiconductor technologies outside the annual Open-Access Calls. This pathway enables time-critical projects to move forward without waiting for the next call.
XECS Call 6
Opens:Jun 02, 2026 00:00 CET
Closes:Jan 21, 2027 17:00 CET
Xecs is an Eureka Cluster specifically designed to accelerate the pace of sustainable industrial innovation in the Electronics Components & Systems (ECS) community. Xecs intends to create an ambitious international collaboration programme. The resulting RD&I projects will generate high societal and economic impact for all those who participate in an Xecs project.
INFRACHIP Open Call to Free Access to State-of-the-Art Technologies
INFRACHIP is a European project under Horizon Europe Programme, offering distributed research infrastructure as a wider European research platform for the sustainable development of next-generation and future semiconductor chips.
Events
Strategy for Start-Ups
Oct 13, 2026 12:30 CETOct 13, 2026 13:50 CET
Online and IrelandDublin, Ireland
Join us for a discussion on building business strategy, specifically when that strategy is being built for and with first-day founders and start-ups in mind. Brian draws on his own research as well as work with SMEs to bring a practical insight into the conception of strategy for new organisations....
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Micro Nano & Chips Tech 2026
Oct 15, 2026 09:00 EETOct 18, 2026 18:00 EET
Ancient Olive Grove Conference Center, University of West AtticaThivon 250, Egaleo, 122 41, Athens, Greece
MICRO NANO & CHIPS TECH is a well-established conference series that brings together researchers, academics, industry professionals, and students working in micro- and nanoelectronics, nanotechnology, and MEMS-related fields. The event provides an excellent forum for the presentation of recent scientific and technological advances, as well as for the development of...
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Advanced Packaging Workshop
Oct 15, 2026 09:00 GMTOct 15, 2026 16:30 GMT
IDA officesDublin, Ireland
The Advanced Packaging Workshop will bring together experts from across research and industry to explore key developments in chiplet integration, advanced substrates, interconnects, assembly, testing and manufacturing. It will also examine semiconductor policy, investment and supply chains, with a focus on accelerating innovation from research through to scalable manufacturing and...
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Entering the mainstream 8-inch SiC market! Guangyun's subsidiary, Shengxin Materials, will be listed on the Emerging Stock Market on October 15th.
Guangyun Group's subsidiary, Shengxin Materials, is expected to be listed on the Emerging Stock Market on October 15th. As N-type conductive SiC products have entered the mainstream 8-inch form factor, the company is currently mass-producing 6-inch and 8-inch conductive and semi-insulating SiC ingots and substrates. Products are gradually entering a stable supply phase, and with customer product verification completed, shipments are expected to continue to increase in 2026. Shengxin Materials was established in 2020, primarily focusing on...
Powering the AI revolution: Inside the grid, thermal, and interconnect challenges limiting data center growth
We take a deep dive into the electrical, thermal, and infrastructural bottlenecks affecting the next-generation computing revolution.
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