Three years ago, the European Union adopted the European Chips Act.
It marked an important first step in enabling funding for first-of-a-kind semiconductor’s research, development and production.
It also laid the foundations for emerging advanced packaging capabilities as strongly advocated by the Global Electronics Association (hereafter the association).
While welcoming these opportunities, we also knew that the Chips Act did not address all vulnerabilities across the European electronics ecosystem.
In the wake of the initial Chips Act, the association initiated a Call-to-Action to form a Pan European coalition of leading EMS (electronics manufacturing services) and PCB (printed circuit board) companies.
