Malaga It aims to become one of Europe’s largest leaders in the field of microelectronics and this Monday received strong support to achieve this goal. IMEC (English acronym for Interuniversity Center for Microelectronics) will establish a research and development (R&D) centre, representing its second facility in Europe after its headquarters in the capital. Leuven (Belgium). The announcement was made this Monday by the Minister of Public Transformation and Public Service. José Luis Escrivaand then the Andalusian Government announced that the center would be located at the Andalusian Technology Park (PTA), also known as Málaga TechPark, in the Campanillas district.
“The second headquarters of IMEC, which will be established in Spain, will be located in Malaga. In recent weeks, we have been working very intensively and in very good cooperation with the Andalusian Junta and the Malaga City Council. We have discussed with the Board of Directors and the City Council that the second factory in the IMEC world has been established here. We have already closed the process and now We will be closing the final terms in the next few days“, elaborated Escrivá. The Minister said that these future IMEC facilities in Malaga are a “The absolute state-of-the-art center for cutting-edge chip design and prefabrication”.
IMEC has multiple features 5,000 researchers and more than 600 industrial partners from 95 countriesAmong them are large international companies in the sector, making it one of the largest research centers in the field of microelectronics and semiconductors worldwide.
For its part, the Board noted that IMEC’s arrival was also “a very high impact on local and regional economysince its creation new employment opportunities and attracting new investments, increasing the region’s competitiveness in the global technology industry.”
“Malaga is lucky because this is the city that IMEC chose to host its second R&D&I production center in Europe. months of negotiations, hard work The Andalusian Government stated that the Ministry of Economy, Finance and European Funds should cooperate closely with the Ministry in order to establish this Microelectronics Center in Andalusia.
This center will be the only IMEC center outside its headquarters in Leuven, Belgium, and, according to the Board, its arrival in Malaga will unite the Andalusia region. “Strategic” zone in the design and production of microelectronics and semiconductor prototypes. Chaired by the Ministry of Economy, Finance and European Funds Carolina SpainIt will provide “significant economic support” to the landing of IMEC, the terms of which are “still under negotiation”.
Last June the Government had already announced its intention to bring new facilities from IMEC, which currently only has an R&D center in Leuven (Belgium), to Spain, but their location was still unknown. Now, Management details that Malaga was chosen to host these offices; This undoubtedly represents a boost for the capital’s technological ecosystem. In fact, PTA and the Innova IRV Foundation, located in the Malaga technocity, have one of the largest strategic growth areas in the field of microchips and microelectronics.
Work of Innova IRV Foundation
Innova Foundation, chaired by Ezequiel Navarro and Juan Carlos Leceta as general managers, stated last year that they were in talks with Leuven (Belgium) IMEC within the scope of the strategy of making Malaga and Spain an international reference in this field.
Specifically, Innova IRV is also developing a microchip design center project in Malaga, which received the green light from the European Commission last summer within the scope of European initiatives of common interest in microelectronics (IPCEI). This project, called DKULPIOT (Design Kit Ultra Low Power Internet of Things)aims to create microelectronic design and advanced packaging that will facilitate a platform (Design Kit and Hw Platform) for companies in the IoT sector. To develop this initiative, Innova IRV founded its own company, Innova IRV Microelectronics SL, which is 100% owned by it.
DKULPIOT project, Planned investment of over 120 million EurosIt wants to respond to the growing global market of devices connected to each other and to other nodes to capture, process, control and transmit information required for the automated functioning of industrial processes (Industry 4.0), Smart Cities, healthcare, automotive and media transportation, among other sectors.
This design will solve the market’s need for versatile solutions that enable the integration of a single “System in Package” (SiP) with different functions according to each company’s demand, reducing costs and development time for commercialization.
With the arrival of IMEC with the DKULPIOT project, Malaga can become one of the largest cities in the world. First European industrial centers to offer this type of chip and advanced package combination.
PSOE celebrates the arrival of IMEC
Malaga PSOE general secretary Dani Pérez congratulated Malaga on hosting these IMEC research and development (R&D) facilities and assured that they would represent a very important investment to strengthen its technological ecosystem.
Pérez emphasized that this was “good news for Malaga” and that it was an investment. “It will be decisive in the technological field” and reminded that the Executive supported the arrival of companies such as Vodafone or GlobalLogic. “betting on technological Malaga”.
“President Pedro Sánchez himself was directly involved in facilitating the arrival of these companies. The Spanish Government has a very strong commitment in this regard. Attracting investment and creating quality employment” he stated.