Experts argue Brussels needs to examine the entire chip industry, rather than focusing on providing billions of subsidies for factories that produce advanced AI chips.<\/p>\n
\u201cUp until a few weeks ago, the conversation on chips was really driven by advanced chips, AI chips,\u201d said Chiara Malaponti, the geoeconomics program coordinator at the European Council on Foreign Relations.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut then you also have the case of Nexperia, which isn\u2019t really about that, but about mature semiconductors,\u201d she argued. \u201cYou saw the consequences of the events of past weeks, and how they had a huge impact on our industry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Malaponti advocated for a comprehensive mapping exercise as part of Brussels\u2019 second effort.<\/p>\n
\u201c[The first chips act] put an emphasis on manufacturing, which is cool, of course, but there are also other parts of the supply chain,\u201d she said, adding that it will be important to understand Europe\u2019s strengths.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow we can cultivate those niches and how we leverage them is something that needs to be discussed as well,\u201d said Malaponti.<\/p>\n
The industry is also a proponent of examining the full chain of production from beginning to end, rather than just focusing on the front-end manufacturing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe chain is only as strong as the weakest link,\u201d said James. \u201cYou\u2019ve seen the chokepoints. There are many other chokepoints in the back-end of the electronics supply chain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Experts argue Brussels needs to examine the entire chip industry, rather than focusing on providing billions of subsidies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1942,346,1395,119521,2000,299,5187,1824,806,2817,5167,20583,6648,53,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-564966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-cars","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-chips-act","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-germany","16":"tag-industry","17":"tag-intelligence","18":"tag-manufacturing","19":"tag-microchips","20":"tag-supply-chains","21":"tag-technology","22":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115534756831469937","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}