ECE is partner in new Danish Chips Competence Centre
More Danish companies must be able to design and manufacture advanced chips. A new national centre now brings together the leading players in the field and gives industry, in particular small and medium sized enterprises, direct access to the latest knowledge, network, design and production facilities. The centre, which is called Danish Chips Competence Centre, will support the design and manufacturing of microchips in Denmark.
The Danish Chips Competence Centre consists of five partners, each with their own strengths. ECE will be responsible for chip design activities, led by Professor Farshad Moradi.
“The semiconductor industry is experiencing rapid growth, and the demand for better and more intelligent chips is constantly increasing. This growth also leads to a critical dependence on national capabilities for chip design and development. With the new center, we can gather and strengthen the entire Danish chip ecosystem and enhance collaboration between industry and academia. This provides companies with a significant technological boost and increases their competitiveness. Moreover, it offers companies excellent opportunities to identify new business and market opportunities," says Farshad Moradi, head of the Electronics and Photonics section at ECE.
The centre brings multible benefits to companies
Mikael Bergholz Knudsen, Head of Department at ECE, sees great potential in the new centre and ECE's role, which can help place the department and AU on the global map within chip design.
“Danish research plays a central role in supporting the Danish chip industry. At ECE, we have a well-established and strong group of researchers within chip design, and the research team is among the best in Europe. We know that Danish companies lack qualified graduates with chip design competences, and as a partner in the centre, we can highlight career opportunities within chip design to our engineering students and thus help companies in their recruitment of new employees,” says Mikael Bergholz Knudsen.
The centre is funded by the EU and the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science with a budget of DKK 57 million over the next four years and, together with similar centres in other European countries, will support the EU's ambition to double the production of chips within Europe by 2030.
In addition to ECE, Aarhus University, the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, Technical University of Denmark, the Danish National Metrology Institute and Danish Industry are partners in the centre.