{"id":990905,"date":"2026-02-10T08:08:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990905"},"modified":"2026-02-10T08:18:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:48:40","slug":"imec-opens-2-5-billion-euros-chip-pilot-line-as-europe-looks-to-strengthen-ai-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/10\/imec-opens-2-5-billion-euros-chip-pilot-line-as-europe-looks-to-strengthen-ai-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Imec opens 2.5 billion euros chip pilot line as Europe looks to strengthen AI hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europe took a step to strengthen its hand \u200din the global chip race on Monday as Belgian research firm imec opened &#8220;NanoIC&#8221;, \u2060a 2.5 billion euros ($2.95 billion) pilot line aimed at developing ultra-advanced semiconductors under the EU&#8217;s Chips Act. <\/p>\n<p>Europe is home to major chipmaking equipment champions &#8211; including \u200cDutch lithography \u200cleader ASML &#8211; but produces and designs only a small slice of the most advanced chips, \u200cleaving it largely on the sidelines of the AI-driven boom that has lifted U.S. and Asian players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe took a step to strengthen its hand \u200din the global chip race on Monday as Belgian research firm imec opened &#8220;NanoIC&#8221;, \u2060a 2.5 billion euros ($2.95 billion) pilot line aimed at developing ultra-advanced semiconductors under the EU&#8217;s Chips Act. Europe is home to major chipmaking equipment champions &#8211; including \u200cDutch lithography \u200cleader ASML &#8211; but produces and designs only a small slice of the most advanced chips, \u200cleaving it largely on the sidelines of the AI-driven boom that has lifted U.S. and Asian players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}