The Ministry of Industry and Tourism has provisionally awarded a total of 53.2 million euros to 37 projects submitted to the second call of the PERTE Chip within the project promotion section of the microelectronics value chain.
Among the beneficiary companies is the Cantabrian Derivatives of Fluorine, located in Castro Urdiales, with a project that has received just over 6.6 million euros in the field of manufacturing strategic materials for semiconductors.
The delegate of the Government of Spain in Cantabria, Eugenia Gómez de Diego, stressed that the aid to the Fluorine Derivatives project is the largest and stressed that "this investment places Cantabria on the map of the value chain of microelectronics, a key sector for European technological sovereignty".
The delegate of the Government recalled that the Ministry headed by Jordi Hereu already approved in 2024 another aid to Fluorine Derivatives worth 3 million euros, in this case within the framework of the Industrial Decarbonization PERTE.
"It is further proof that European funds are reaching our companies and that the Cantabrian industrial fabric is ready to participate and lead projects that contribute to the technological future of Spain and Europe. We will continue to work so that Cantabria is present at every strategic opportunity, because we believe in the talent, commitment and potential of this land," said Gómez de Diego, who has also valued the reindustrialization plan promoted by the Government of Pedro Sánchez.
In this sense, he assured that from "the Government of Spain we continue to bet on an industrial policy that places innovation, technological autonomy and territorial cohesion at the center of economic transformation, generating employment and new opportunities".
PEARL Chip
As a whole, the projects benefited belong to 11 autonomous communities. Some of them are:
In disruptive technologies applied to microelectronics, the IDEADED project, based in Barcelona, which has obtained 4.7 million euros for the development of transistors.
In terms of security and cryptography, CIPHERBIT, with a project benefiting more than half a million euros oriented to digital security and cyber defense.
In technologies with high potential for the defense and aerospace sector, the ALDAKIN project, with more than 300,000 euros of subsidy to provide microelectronics solutions for critical components in aeronautics.
In the field of virtual intelligent computing tools applied to the optimization of microelectronics, the project of MULTIVERSE COMPUTNG, based in Guipúzcoa, which has benefited with more than 4 million euros.
And in the development of disruptive materials, the DRAGON ELEMENTS project aims to create a universal factory of elements that integrate graphene in opto-electro-mechanical applications, and which has received funding close to 3 million euros.
The PERTE Chip aims to strengthen the design and production capabilities of the microelectronics and semiconductor industry in Spain from a comprehensive perspective and promote national and EU strategic autonomy in this sector.