Webinar | How the EU and the U.S. can Advance Together in the Microchip Race – Transatlantic Developments in the Semiconductor Industry – EEAS
Learn how the EU and the U.S. can advance together in the microchip race.
In the aftermath of the Covid Pandemic and now the War in Ukraine, the EU and the United States are eager to work together and leverage their innovative ecosystems and to build up their position in the semiconductor ecosystem.
Leaders from the EU and the U.S. collaborate via the specially created Trade & Technology Council to find effective ways to and realign on their strengths. As the European Commission has noted, maintaining a reliable global market for European products and ensuring security of supply “will require building balanced semiconductor partnerships with like-minded countries…[with the aim of setting] out cooperative frameworks on initiatives of mutual interest and seek[ing] a commitment to ensure continuity of supply in times of crisis.”
The United States has also acknowledged the importance of formalizing cooperation with allies in fostering secure supply chains. It allocated $500 million over five years for the establishment of a Multilateral Semiconductors Security Fund, which includes provisions for developing harmonized export controls, intellectual property rights, and foreign direct investment screening.
Our panel will explore how to put these ambitious plans into action and what it will take –on the ground- to execute against this strategic realignment.
Issues to be discussed include:
• Examining European and US ambition and the realities in the global semiconductor market place – are we realistic or overly optimistic
• Strategies on both sides of the Atlantic to enhance innovation, RD&I
• The subsidy race – analyzing European and American approaches
• U.S.-China-Taiwan chips tension: de-risking from China – how to proceed
• Efficacy of export controls
• Over-reliance on Taiwan or underdeveloped partnership?
• Structures for ongoing transatlantic cooperation
• How can the EU and the United States collaborate effectively to create a viable semiconductor ecosystem
SPEAKERS:
• Lucinda Creighton, CEO, VULCAN CONSULTING [Moderator]
• Avi Messica, CEO & Co-Founder, NEOLOGIC
• Lucilla Sioli, Director for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry, EUROPEAN COMMISSION – DG CONNECT
• Adam Schafer, Head of Supply Chain Strategy – CHIPS Program Office, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
