SAXONY! at the SEMICON Japan 2024

"Silicon Saxony" - More Than Just Chips

In Saxony, approx. 3,650 companies with a total of 81,000 employees are active along all steps of the ICT value creation chain: They develop, manufacture, and promote integrated circuits, or serve as materials and equipment suppliers to the chip industry, produce and distribute electronic products and systems based on integrated circuits, or develop and promote software.

Every third chip produced in Europe is "Made in Saxony". BOSCH, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Infineon and - from 2025 and 2027 respectively - also JENOPTIK and TSMC operate some of the world's most modern semiconductor fabs in Dresden.

“Silicon Saxony” aptly demonstrates its innovative power in diverse fields: In Dresden’s 5G Lab Germany, more than 600 scientists are working on the development of key 5G / 6G technologies to be used, for example, for autonomous driving and smart factories. Saxony also assumes a strong position when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) – with a total of three research centers of the Fraunhofer Society and the semiconductor producer Infineon. Saxony will also play a decisive role in developing the future of the European semiconductor industry in the areas of advanced packaging / chiplets and test / reliability - e.g. in the Chiplet Center of Excellence (CCoE) in Dresden, the Test and Reliability Center (TRC) in Chemnitz or participation in the Europe-wide pilot line project “Advanced Packaging and Heterogeneous Integration for Electronic Components and Systems (APECS)”.