This Tuesday, July 12, 2022, the entire French electronics sector and beyond the French and European industry met in Crolles (Isère). Indeed, after the announcement the day before during the 5^th Choose France summit in Versailles that the State would invest €5.7 billion in the “ mega-fab” supported by STMicroelectronics and GlogalFoundries, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, through his symbolic presence on the Crolles site – the French Silicon Valley – wanted to express the determining and strategic role of electronics in reindustrialization of France and its energy transition and to present the France 2030 Electronic Plan.

Acsiel Alliance Electronique, through its president Stéphane Martinez, its general delegate Sandrine Beaufils, its treasurer José Bériot, but also Professor Olivier Bonnaud of the GIP-CNFM, represented its members and reaffirmed their involvement and their strategic position in the value chain, the force of proposal that they intend to be, the driving role that they wish to play and their ambitions in the issues of industrial sovereignty and relocation, training, job creation and energy management of the sector.

A look back at some highlights of the speech given by Emmanuel Macron

• In this summer of 2022, here in Crolles, behind this investment, we are today building the ways and means to be master of our destiny!

• In the context of reindustrialization, relocation by continuing to lower production taxes, with France 2030 and 54 billion invested via the Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI), we are building in-depth sectors to build our industries of tomorrow, taking into account our objectives: carbon neutrality 2050, digitalization, educational and health challenges of France, etc.

• Electronics is a strategic and essential sector because it is “the industry of industry”. It is a key sector without which, no development is possible and all the transitions that we are currently experiencing involve innovations and production in the electronics sector (electric vehicles and electric mobility, connected objects and autonomous vehicles, transition climate and reduction of energy consumption)

• Europe woke up within the framework of the IPCEI, Chips Act in order to regain industrial sovereignty and no longer depend on Asia. The objective set is to reach 20% of global production of advanced and durable semiconductors by 2030. That is to say, to do 4 times more in 10 years because global production will double during these 10 years!

• The France Électronique 2030 Plan has 3 pillars:

1. 1. Structuring the value chains for this IPCEI around 15 industrial leaders, 150 French partners (startups, SMEs, mid-sized companies, researchers, CEA, CNRS, academic laboratories, universities), the Grenoblois basin and 8 others regions – 18,000 hires over the next 3 years – €10 billion invested in the creation of 10 new factories or production lines.
      Unprecedented investment in the sector which should lead to a 20% increase in production.

1. 2. Investment in the mega-fab at the Crolles site as part of the partnership between STMicroelectronics and GlobalFoundries to double production capacities. “It’s done in 3 and a half years, what was done in 30 years! ”.

1. 3. Investment in research and training. 800 million euros to support the CEA and companies involved in the miniaturization research strategy up to the 10 nm technological node, companies, startups, ETIs or large innovative laboratories, the development of exploratory research (perception numerical, components, calculation…)

To be up to date with skills: 50 million for training and apprenticeship in the electronics sector – 27 million for the University of Grenoble

• The coming times must lead us to accelerate our strategies of independence and ambition in terms of research and industry.