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Chip Chair
The SoC4sensing Chip Chair promotes activities to disseminate microelectronics to students, companies, and society. The main objective of these actions is to attract talent to the degrees that graduate professionals need. To this end, the aim is to visualize to society the possibilities offered by developing a professional activity in electronic and microelectronic design.
The Aula Chip, launched from SoC4sensing, is an impact tool for meeting dissemination objectives. This Classroom has the format of the Company Classroom of the School of Engineering of Bilbao.
The Business Classrooms are spaces located in the school itself. They are created to encourage student interest in the entities that sponsor the classrooms and to promote R&D&I activities of interest to the promoters. They are an effective instrument of collaboration between the School of Engineering of Bilbao, through its departments, and the companies, both in activities related to research, technological development, and innovation and in everything related to training, both for future engineers and in activities related to the recycling and continuous training of company personnel. There are currently 12 Company Classrooms.
Therefore, the Aula Chip promotes the visibility of the actions carried out in the Chair to students, companies, and society.
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Official inauguration of the SoC4sensing Chair and the Chip Classroom
First publication date: 21/01/2025
On December 11, 2024, the official inauguration of the SoC4sensing Chip Chair and the Chip Classroom was held in the Board Room of the II-i Building School of Engineering of Bilbao.
The SoC4sensing Chair is a public-private initiative whose main objective is to promote the design of “Chips” in the Basque Country for Industry, Energy, and Aerospace through training, research, and dissemination of microelectronics.
During the opening day, institutional interventions were made by the Director of the School of Engineering of Bilbao, Dr. Charles Pinto; the Director of the Chair, Dr. Armando Astarloa; the Vice Rector of Research, Dña. Inmaculada Arostegui and the representatives of the sponsors of the Chair: Dr. Mikel Idirin, CEO of System-pm-Chip engineering S.L. ; Dña. Elena Zárraga, President of the GAIA Cluster; Dr. Jon Pérez Cerrolaza, Director of the Embedded Electronic Systems and Cybersecurity Unit of Ikerlan.
The following papers were presented at the conference:
PERTE CHIP
Dr. Jaime Martorell Suárez is the special commissioner of PERTE (Strategic Project for the Recovery and Economic Transformation) of Microelectronics and Semiconductors; he updated the key aspects of PERTE Chip and its potential impact on companies in the sector.
Jaime Martorell is a historic manager in the ICT (information and communications technology) sector who has spent his professional career between Spain and the USA. Founded in 1987, he returned to Spain to hold the position of general manager of ATT Microelectrónica. Subsequently, he has been president of Motorola in Spain and general manager of ONO.
SEMICONDUCTOR MARKET
Dña. Belén Matilla, director of the largest multinational semiconductor distribution company (AVNET-Silica), presented the demand forecast for semiconductors in the medium and long term.
In their speech, they highlighted the opportunities offered by the sector for solutions that respond to the new challenges facing key sectors for the Basque Country, such as Industry, Energy, Automotive, and Aerospace.
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