The news arrived in the last few days and marks - together with the launch of the Chips Act – “a decisive step forward” for Europe to “determine its own destiny”, explained Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton. Thanks to major investments - which are already underway - together with substantial public funding and a strong regulatory framework, Breton explained, “we are becoming an industrial powerhouse in the markets of the future, able to provide ourselves and the world with mature, advanced semiconductors. Semiconductors that are essential elements of the technologies that will shape our future, our industry a