Among the myriad files on Ireland’s desk for the EU presidency will be efforts to bolster tech sovereignty in Europe, including access to vital semiconductors. Included in a recently unveiled European Commission package aimed at making Europe more tech-independent was a revision of the EU Chips Act. It was an attempt to breathe new life into a legislative package from 2023, which tried to boost the production of advanced semiconductors in Europe by 20 per cent by 2030. That has failed to gather the kind of momentum that Brussels hoped would deliver its promises of bringing mass-scale semiconductor manufacturing to…

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