The European Union is currently developing a new version of the Chips Act program. The European Chips Act 2.0 represents a strategic initiative to strengthen the European semiconductor ecosystem.
Building on the original Chips Act adopted in 2023, this updated framework aims to address emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, supply chain needs, and geopolitical challenges while fostering innovation, research, and production capacity within Europe, as well as support to start-ups in order to foster scaling-up.
As GSA encompasses the entire semiconductor value chain, its members are optimally positioned to understand the ecosystem needs to evolve and grow.
In this webinar, we will present the main objectives, challenges and opportunities of this EU effort, very timely in these challenging times.
GSA EMEA Chairwoman
Maria Marced
Board Member, Semiconductor Executive
GSA EMEA Chairwoman
María Marced is a Corporate Director serving on several boards: CEVA, IQE and Sequans Communications. She is also the Chairwoman of the GSA EMEA Leadership Council. She has been the President of TSMC Europe from November 2007 until December 2023 being responsible for the strategy and management of TSMC Europe and leading the decision of TSMC on the EU fab.
Dr. Marced joined Philips Semiconductors in 2003 as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Connected Multimedia Solutions Business Unit and later on as General Manager of Sales and Marketing during the transformation of Philips to NXP. She joined Philips from Intel where she developed her professional career over 19 years, reaching the top position in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region as Vice President and General Manager.
Among many other awards, Dr. Marced has received the “Global Industry Leader Award 2024”, awarded at the international microelectronics fair ChipEx-2024, and she is a member of the Expert Group of the Strategic Project (PERTE) CHIP in Spain.
Maria Marced
Board Member, Semiconductor Executive
GSA EMEA Chairwoman
NXP
Maarten Dirkzwager
EVP and Chief Strategy Officer
NXP
In his role current role, Maarten is responsible for corporate strategy and chief of staff to the NXP management team.
Maarten joined the company in 1996 at Philips. After several roles in central engineering, he moved to Philips Semiconductors in Hong Kong in 2005, where he was responsible for the innovation, efficiency and strategy of the discrete back-end factories. In 2009 he moved to the corporate strategy team in the Netherlands where he was involved in the transition of NXP to a profitable high-performance mixed signal player. In 2015 he played a leading role in NXP’s acquisition and integration of Freescale, which resulted in creating one of the leading semiconductor companies and a leader in automotive semiconductors.
In 2017 and 2018 Maarten worked as head of strategy for ASML and AMS, after which he returned to NXP in early 2019.
Maarten Dirkzwager
EVP and Chief Strategy Officer
NXP
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