Author: Abhirup Gan

Europe may be well behind its global competitors in traditional microchip manufacturing, but a wave of emerging technologies could help it recover lost ground or even leapfrog its competition in entirely new areas, experts say.“We shouldn’t try to compete with the TSMCs of the world today,” says Francis Deprez, Belgium’s lead delegate to the Chips Joint Undertaking and Chair of its Public Authorities Board, referring to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world leader in semiconductor manufacturing. “We need to capitalize on them and complement them with novel technologies.”Those technologies include the use of new materials, such as silicon carbide and…

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