{"id":18130,"date":"2025-02-21T14:36:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T08:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=18130"},"modified":"2025-02-21T14:36:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T08:51:55","slug":"eu-approves-german-state-aid-to-build-new-infineon-semiconductor-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/eu-approves-german-state-aid-to-build-new-infineon-semiconductor-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"EU approves German state aid to build new Infineon semiconductor plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The European Commission on Thursday approved German state aid in the amount of 920 million euros (966 million U.S. dollars) for constructing a new Infineon semiconductor manufacturing plant in Dresden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This new manufacturing plant will bring flexible production capacity to the European Union (EU) and thereby strengthen Europe&#8217;s security of supply, resilience and technological autonomy in semiconductor technologies,&#8221; the Commission said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The total investment in the new plant, which will reach its full capacity in 2031, will amount to 3.5 billion euros.<\/p>\n<p>The plant will produce discrete power technologies used for control in electronic systems, as well as analog\/mixed-signal integrated circuits needed to bridge the gap between analog and digital worlds. The semiconductors will be used in industrial, automotive and consumer applications.<\/p>\n<p>Recent studies showed that Europe lags behind China and the United States in almost all critical technologies, including semiconductors. The EU hopes to bridge this gap in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission previously approved support for STMicroelectronics&#8217; two SiC facilities in Italy, a French aid measure for STMicroelectronics and GlobalFoundries, a German measure for European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, and an Italian measure for Silicon Box&#8217;s advanced packaging and testing facility. (1 euro = 1.05 U.S. dollar)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission on Thursday approved German state aid in the amount of 920 million euros (966 million U.S. dollars) for constructing a new Infineon semiconductor manufacturing plant in Dresden. &#8220;This new manufacturing plant will bring flexible production capacity to the European Union (EU) and thereby strengthen Europe&#8217;s security of supply, resilience and technological autonomy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18132,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18130\/revisions\/18132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}