Denmark Opens 300-mm Wafer Fab to Strengthen Europe’s Sovereignty

Nov. 20, 2025 – 

By Rebecca Pool, EETimes Europe

With the POEM Technology Center, Denmark breaks into 300-mm wafer production, advancing Europe’s exit from U.S. and Chinese chip reliance.

Denmark has taken a decisive step toward European technology sovereignty with the launch of its first 300-mm wafer fabrication facility. The new POEM Technology Center, a collaboration between the Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Chip Programme (NQCP) and France’s Riber, is based at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute. Positioned as a hub for photonic and quantum chip fabrication, the facility brings molecular beam epitaxy and other advanced tools to accelerate breakthroughs and strengthen both the national and European ecosystem in microchips and quantum technology.

“With this facility, we are moving material production in-house, which allows us to research and develop much more efficiently because we are no longer dependent on asking others around the world to produce for us,” Peter Krogstrup, CEO of NQCP and professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, told EE Times Europe. “Moreover, it helps us transfer the technologies we develop directly into mass production—for the benefit of ourselves, Denmark, and the entire field.

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