Peter Clarke, EETimes
10/10/2012 3:00 AM EDT
LONDON – Europe's leading chip companies must join forces to compete in the investment-intensive semiconductor business, according to Heinz Kundert, president of the Europe branch of industry association SEMI.
"Europe must not risk walking away from the most important global key industry, or we will fall behind in other international industries, too," he said in a statement issued to coincide with the opening of the three-day Semicon Europa exhibition being held in Dresden, Germany, Oct. 9 to 11.