Madrid, February 19, 2025.- The Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Service, Óscar López, has received in the ministry the representatives of the main business, trade union and academic organizations related to the PERTE Chip to examine with them the progress in the implementation of this strategic project framed in the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan and which has more than 12 billion euros to transform and strengthen the microelectronics and semiconductors sector.
The meeting was attended by representatives of the business organizations CEOE, AMETIC and AESEMI, the trade unions CCOO and UGT and universities and technological clusters. In addition to the minister, the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructures, Antonio Hernando, and the general director of the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT), Javier Ponce, have participated in the ministry.
In his speech, the minister stressed that “the portfolio of operations of the PERTE Chip includes “ambitious financing bets” such as the construction of the Imec center in Malaga, or the entry into the capital of the Canarian companies Wooptix and the Madrid company Sensia in Leganés, all operations that position Spain in the microchip and Artificial Intelligence industries. In addition to those mentioned, SETT is currently exploring other millionaire investments.
In addition, other projects promoted by the ministry within the framework of the PERTE Chip include grants to university-business chairs (45 million euros) that will allow the training of more than 1,000 professionals in microelectronics and semiconductors, investments in the construction of quantum computers and related technologies (36 million euros) or the Spanish leadership of the 5th European Pilot Line of photonic circuits, to which Spain contributes 66.5 million euros.
“At a time when a large part of chip production is located in the hands of very few companies in other parts of the world, strengthening our technological sovereignty is not debatable, it is urgent,” López told his interlocutors. “I count on your collaboration to continue moving towards the digital Spain”.