Financial instruments
06 September 2026
Chips for Europe Initiative 2.0 adds a dedicated Chips Fund for start-ups and SMEs
Financial instruments
06 September 2026
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The Chips for Europe Initiative 2.0 now comprises six components, including a dedicated 'Chips Fund' specifically providing access to capital for start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs working on semiconductor technologies - alongside pilot lines, design capacities, quantum-chip engineering capacity, competence centres and photonic integrated circuit development.
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EU-27
Financial Institutions and Investors
SMEs (a company with less than 250 employees)
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Advanced Manufacturing Organisation Types
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Industrial Software & Technology Providers
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Robotics and Automation Companies
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Technology areas
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Electronics, Semiconductors, Power Electronics
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Quantum technologies
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This gives smaller manufacturers and component suppliers a funding route into semiconductor development that previously required either large corporate R&D budgets or venture capital with semiconductor-specific expertise, neither of which is readily available to most SME machinery or robotics component makers. Combined with the FAMES pilot line's SME-accessible testing capacity (covered separately above), this Fund addresses the other half of the equation: getting from a tested design to investable, fundable production scale-up.
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