Europe Has To Look To Foreign Companies To Establish World-Class European Manufacturing
May 25, 2011
Europe has to look outside its borders if it is to survive as a semiconductor producing region. That was the clear message of the SEMI conference in Brussels this week.
Clearly Europe has an amazing position in semiconductor process technology. Thanks to Imec, it has the best semiconductor manufacturing process technology in the world.
Also, Europe has some of the best semiconductor manufacturing equipment suppliers in the world. ASML and ASMI are good examples.
And it has some of the best materials suppliers in the world.
What Europe lacks is world-class manufacturing companies.
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