Create some cheap, efficient semiconductors and almost hard as diamond to install factory Spain. This is the goal he dreams of. consortium formed by three Spanish companies —Nanoker, Fagor and Hyperbaric— for your research and development project DioSiC, just got rewarded 2.2 million euros From the program ‘Chip Missions’. The government solved the problem first aid kit Perte’s microelectronics and semiconductors with 15 selected projects and 50 million financing to finance research developing scientific abilities and the technological basis of companies.
It is the European funding program known as ‘Perte Chip’. more money All allocated, a total of 12 billion 250 million euros. Trying to make room for Spain among the greats Taiwan and South Korea, mother Microchip manufacturers around the world. And the call for ‘Chip Missions’ that has just been resolved, first step towards this goal. “The only way to get into a market like chips is to make something.” completely differentcan be devastating, but the problem is high risk “You’re running it and it’s very expensive,” he explains. nanoker and managing director of the General CSIC Foundation, Ramon Torrecillasin the phone conversation.
This company is based asturias dedicated to manufacturing ceramic products joined forces with Burgos for nanotechnology hyperbaric and Cantabrian Fagor Electronics develop a material for production High power microchips in Spain from silicon carbide. There is a company The company that produces this component in Europe German multinational BoschBut their products are very expensive. “We want to develop a method that will allow” democratize”says Torrecillas. The goal is to reduce production costs by 30%, increase efficiency by 35% and thus make production more efficient. economically feasible.
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One ‘chip’ one tiny square pill created by semiconductor material where electronic circuits are produced. HE semiconductor the most common silicon, It is relatively easy and inexpensive to obtain, but is not suitable for all current applications. Instead of silicon carbidecalled the main component of chips high power. So what is needed super fast charging electric car batteries or future machines storage for renewable energy.
The DioSiC project, which has a budget of 3.3 million Euros and two-thirds of which is financed by ‘Perte Chip’, aims to produce silicon carbide substrates. has its own technology nanoker –Spark Plasma Sintering– is a subsequent process that densifies this material at high speed and at very low cost, using a system operating at very high pressure (hot isostatic pressing), which another company specializes in. Spanish, the case from Burgos on this subject hyperbaric, According to Torrecillas.
cantabrian Fagor Electronics will be responsible for the next step, producing from chips. “We want to show” life from what we said and the second put a plant With this technology Fagor european leader and why not global,” says Torrecillas. “Then we will introduce ourselves Perte is bigTo establish a silicon carbide plant in Spain. “And we will achieve this,” he adds. The deadline they set to achieve this goal is only two years.
Other projects
Others join this business trio 65 companies grouped 14 more projects with a total amount of 50 million Euros in non-refundable funds, which constitute 70% of the total budget of the projects.. Among them, there are also well-known names such as those listed above. Fagorbut also multinational Indra or Televesclassic company multi-roof satellite dishestogether specialized companies, like Twoptics System Designfocused on the manufacture of precision optical components and systems or Fyla Laserspecializes in the development of laser technology for scientific and industrial applications.
Projects include everything. One example, led by hispavistaIt is a small Basque company specializing in the internet, along with five other companies. hipster chips “creating the first high-performance, low-power integrated card” stratospheric balloons“. Another, the investigation led by microfluidHe also aims to obtain an in vitro microfluidic system for “monitoring” in Basque. pharmacological treatments against him cancer“.
Catalan Monochrome, on his own behalf, He leads a project to promote the semiconductor value chain in Spain. researching new semiconductor component technologies For “Swir vision-based 3D system suitable for high-volume market penetration”.