ECE Seminar: European Reaction to the Chips Shortage: The EU Chips Act

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Speaker: Jaume Segura Fuster

Presentation Title: European Reaction to the Chips Shortage: The EU Chips Act

Abstract: At the beginning of this decade, a confluence of circumstances led to an overall chips shortage that impacted essential sectors of several advanced economies worldwide. To cope with such events various government or regions adopted the so-called Chips Act. In this talk, after a brief review of the semiconductor chain complexities and intricate relationships, the talk will outline the actions planned under the European Union Chips Act, and the ones being carried out up to date.

Bio: Jaume Segura is a Full Professor at the University of the Balearic Islands where he leads the Electronic Systems Group. He has gained research and teaching experience in Spain and the USA where he has carried out research stays at Intel Research Laboratories OR, Philips Semiconductors USA and the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico NM. His research interests have included various topics in the fields of integrated biosensors, microelectronic circuit design and testing, CMOS-MEMS sensor integration, high reliability integrated circuit design, thermal issues in CMOS integrated circuits and advanced parametric test methodologies. Prof. Segura is the co-author of around 150 papers in journals and conferences, five patents transferred to the microelectronics industry and two books published by IEEE Press – John Wile & Sons and SCITECH publishing house, respectively. He has been President of the Spanish section of IEEE-CAS for eight years, member of the Executive Committee of Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) for five years and member of the Program Committee of several IEEE conferences. He has also been a collaborator of the Spanish Government National Research Agency (ANEP – currently AEI) for four years and was member (two years) and then President (one year) of the Advisory Committee on Communications, Computing and Electronics Engineering of the Spanish Government Research Activity Evaluation Agency (CNEAI).

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