FabCat Manifest (en)

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Manifest

The promoter group of the FabCat initiative has the objective to actively participate in the promotion of Catalonia as the location of one of the semiconductor factories to be built in the European Union as a result of the Chips Act. The objective of this initiative is the reindustrialization of Europe and the recovery of a relevant part of the global semiconductor market.

According to the European Commission work program for the year 2022, published on October 19, 2021, a proposal on a European chip law will be published in the second quarter of 2022. More information can be obtained in Commission work program 2022 - Making Europe stronger together, COM (2021) 645, 19 October 2021

The basis for getting started the work is the proposal FabCat-20210915-EFB-01-01 - Proposal FabCat.pdf which received the support of:

The initiative is promoted by a group of people who altruistically and voluntarily have coordinated with the desire to carry out a critical analysis on the viability and convenience of the implementation of any of these new facilities in the territory .

Index

Manifest

Advocacy Group

Activities

Members

Background

Locations

Goals

Publication Manifest

Show of Interest in the IPCEI

Viability of State Financing

Viability Financing Generalitat de > Catalunya

Contacting European companies

Contact companies outside the EU

Ecosystem IT

References

Disclosure

Advocacy Group

The promoting group is made up of people who either individually or at the institutional representation level work voluntarily and altruistically in the analysis, drafting and promotion of a proposal that Catalonia takes as a possible location of any of the new companies to be built in the coming years.

Academics and professionals related to the design and manufacture of devices and chips participate in the promoting group, but there is also participation of engineers from disciplines related to construction, maintenance and logistics associated with large industrial facilities.

The promoter group also includes local representatives of the areas that are nominated as possible locations for the future facilities.

Activities

The functions of the promoter group are:

Members

The initial list of members is as follows:

This list is open. We are aware that at the time of the presentation of the Manifest we have not been able to identify or reach all the actors who must make the proposal's success possible. We hope that once the documents are made public, the list will expand and complete the representation of the ecosystem associated with the proposal.

Background

On October 13, 2021, the group that drafted the FabCat proposal sent the Government of the Generalitat de Catalunya a proposal to establish a semiconductor factory in Catalonia.

The proposal was sent to the directors:

As of October 12, 2021, a preliminary presentation of the proposal was made. In this presentation, organized by the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, the following attended:

After a request from the Junts per Catalunya parliamentary group, on October 21, 2021, Esteve Farrés presented the proposal to the parliamentarians:

On October 26, 2021, the presentation was made to Mr. Ferran Rodero, General Director of Economic Promotion, Competition and Regulation of the Generalitat de Catalunya who due to scheduling problems could not attend the presentation on October 12.

On November 9, the proposal was presented to the Popap program of Catalunya Ràdio, the audio is available in Popap - FabCat, an initiative to establish a semiconductor factory in Catalonia.

On the 8th of December, the media collection phase was concluded and it was decided to start up the promoter group.

On December 24, the information on the FabCat proposal reached the Advisory Committee of the Digital Catalan Alliance.

On January 10, 2022, the information on the status of the proposal and the draft of this Manifest was sent to the General Secretariat of Industry and SMEs (Mr. Raül Blanco) of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism of the government of Spain.

Locations

At the moment, conversations have been initiated with:

These are a first exploration of locations in the territory that share minimum requirements:

Goals

Publication Manifest

It is proposed to make this Manifest public on January 11, 2022.

Show of Interest in the IPCEI

A date 12 December embre of 2021 we know that from the"Important Projects of Common European Interest" (IPCEI), [Microelectronics have been two rounds of Expressions of Interest Carried out at the European level and that currently the selected projects are being evaluated by the DG COMP of the European Commission.

The Promoting Group should ask what projects have been presented from the State, and see if there is any option for coordination or mutual support.

Questions:

Viability of State Financing

Given that the Spanish projects will be financed with a budget from the Ministry of Industry, they should be contacted to find out what position they will have in the event that a semiconductor company shows interest in a location in Catalonia.

Send the following questions to the Ministry of Industry:

Considering that the FabCat proposal is aimed at a factory with an investment of € 22,000 million, the aim would be to assess the availability of support from the State of about € 2,200 million (10%)

Viability Financing Generalitat de Catalunya

Financing from the Generalitat de Catalonia is initially valued at € 500 M corresponding to the adequacy of communications and infrastructures.

Support for the management of possible industrial land available to or participating in INCASOL.

Contacting European companies

There are currently 29 European companies within the "IPCEI on Microelectronics", they should be contacted to find out if there would be a possible internal movement within the EU or if the possibilities are limited to the establishment of one outside the EU.

Contact companies outside the EU

It will also be necessary to contact companies in the sector with and without implantation in the European Union such as:

Ecosystem IT

is necessary to expand the information of the companies that can be incorporated into the ecosystem beyond SEAT, FICOSA, HP, SGS -Brightsight.

The Barcelona and Girona Chambers of Commerce have already initiated contacts and we hope that the entry of the [Digital Catalonia Alliance into the Promoter group will speed up the process of supporting and defining this ecosystem that should allow a facility to be fully operational 365 days 24 hours .

References

LEGISLATIVE TRAIN11.20212 EN EUROPE FIT FOR THE DIGITAL AGE EUROPEAN CHIPS ACT (SEMI-CONDUCTORES)

IPCEI on Microelectronics - Important Project of Common European Interest

Documents sent to the Government of the Generalitat de Catalunya:

Document Details

Title: FabCat Manifest

Subtitle: On the viability of a semiconductor factory in Catalonia

Author: Esteve FarrésEsteve Farrés <esteve.farres@gmail.com>

Date: 2021-12-08

Delivery date: 2022-01-11

Project: Semiconductors' Foundry at Catalunya

Organization: Tecnoateneu de Vilablareix

Collaborators:

Confidentiality:

General use, the document is open and can be distributed under the Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA)

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