At a glance
| Booth | I3123 |
| Country | HK |
| Website | catalonia.com/key-industries-technologies/technologies/semiconductors-in-catalonia |
Company profile
ACCIO Hong Kong Catalonia Competitiveness Agency Limited represents Catalonia Trade & Investment, the Catalan Government agency for foreign investment and business competitiveness. The agency supports international companies that want to expand, innovate, or establish strategic operations in Southern Europe, with Catalonia as the location for investment and business growth. Its company-support services include market intelligence, site selection, partner search, and connections with key industry stakeholders. Barcelona and Catalonia are presented as a semiconductor and advanced-technology environment built around research centers, universities, specialized talent, technology companies, and suppliers. The agency identifies semiconductor manufacturing, semiconductor design, R&D, and innovation projects as activities that can be developed within this regional ecosystem. For companies considering investment or expansion, the support model is tailored to the individual project rather than limited to a single standard service, allowing location, information, partnership, and stakeholder needs to be addressed together. Catalonia Trade & Investment maintains Asia-Pacific offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney, and Tokyo to strengthen business links between companies in Asia Pacific and Catalonia. Through this network, ACCIO Hong Kong Catalonia Competitiveness Agency Limited can connect Asian companies with Catalonia's investment-support services and semiconductor ecosystem information.
Exhibits
Catalonia's semiconductor ecosystem gathers 4,600 professionals and 260 institutions, companies, and entities, providing a quantified view of the regional semiconductor network. A separate ecosystem mapping reports 216 companies, 4,600 qualified jobs, and €301.8M in turnover, while 81% of sector companies are SMEs and 6.9% are startups. The mapping also reports that 20.4% of the semiconductor companies are less than 10 years old, 50.5% are exporters, and 44.17% of Catalan manufacturing industry uses semiconductors in processes or products. Semiconductor chips are described as affecting communications, electrical and electronic equipment, vehicles, robots, industrial machinery, medicine, and medical equipment, showing the range of value chains connected to the sector. Catalonia is described as a dynamic southern-European environment for semiconductor design, with Cisco, Monolithic Power Systems, and Intel having announced microchip design centers in Barcelona. The regional ecosystem also includes a planned private semiconductor clean room by IDEADED near Barcelona and international-reference infrastructure such as the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and ICFO. Catalonia has 20 technology centers carrying out semiconductor R&D activities and 11 Catalan universities offering training in the field, linking research infrastructure with talent development. Since the launch of the European Chips Act, Catalonia is described as the third-leading EU region for foreign-investment projects in semiconductors, fifth in the EU for jobs created, and eleventh for investment volume attracted. Within Spain, the region is reported to concentrate 66.7% of semiconductor projects, 70.7% of the jobs created, and 40.3% of invested capital associated with this investment picture. The European Chips Act is described as involving more than €43 billion of investment with a target for the EU to account for 20% of the global semiconductor market by 2030. Spain's semiconductor PERTE is described as involving €12.25B of public investment through 2027 to develop microelectronics and semiconductor design and production capabilities. Companies based in Catalonia secured €27.65 million from the Microelectronics Value Chain call under PERTE Chip, representing 52% of the €53.2 million allocated across Spain. The Semiconductor and Chip Alliance of Catalonia is a public-private initiative with fifty members and five main objectives: promote the sector and strengthen value-chain actors, attract investment, build infrastructure, become a hub for semiconductor talent, and promote technology transfer. For investors and semiconductor companies, these ecosystem data are paired with Catalonia Trade & Investment services for market intelligence, site selection, partner search, and introductions to key industry stakeholders. The supplied scope therefore combines regional semiconductor ecosystem information with practical investment-establishment support, allowing companies to evaluate talent, research, industrial networks, public initiatives, locations, and potential partners within Catalonia. The same regional analysis reports that global semiconductor demand is mainly for communications at 32% and computing at 25%, while in Europe automotive at 37% and industry at 25% stand out. Catalonia Trade & Investment also provides a supplier database that can be searched for Catalan companies in the semiconductor sector, adding a direct supplier-discovery tool to the ecosystem information.
Capabilities and products
- investment and establishment support for international companies
- market intelligence services
- investment site selection
- partner search
- connections with key industry stakeholders
- semiconductor supplier database search