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Building Resilient Semiconductor Supply Chains

Dataspaces for a Sustainable and Resilient Semiconductor Ecosystem

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News and Project Updates

We are happy and proud to share a key highlight from our research project SEMICONDUCTOR-X: we have successfully reached Milestone 2!

2025-08-25
As already shared on Monday August 11th the team of the project presented their results for Milestone 2 in a midterm presentation sharing our status and results. We were honored to welcome delegat…
2025-08-14
The SEMICONDUCTOR-X consortia held its midterm presentation for “Milestone 2” on Monday August 11th and we shared our status and results to BMWE Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie and VD…
2025-08-10
This gathering will showcase the incredible progress we’ve made with Milestone 2 of our SEMICONDUCTOR-X project. Our dedicated team has been working tirelessly to push the boundaries for the semi…
2025-07-14
SEMICONDUCTOR-X was present at Silicon Saxony Day on June 17th, 2025, at  Dresden Airport  – the international high-tech and networking event! Silicon Saxony Day 2025 was an event where innovat…
2025-06-16
In this video, Anja Müsch from Merck Electronics, elaborates on how they are committed to advancing digitalization. Together our goal is to create more resilient, efficient, and sustainable semico…
2025-06-05
“Getting Europe to play a vital role in semiconductor industry through Semiconductor-X, design capabilities and expansion of the Eco-System.” Sonja Pierer, Managing Director at Intel Germany, and…

    Building Resilience: Digitalizing Europe’s Semiconductor Value Chain

    Our project aims to make the European semiconductor industry sustainable and resilient through comprehensive digitalization and the establishment of traceability. Together with our partners, we are developing new data-driven business models and encouraging innovation along the entire value chain. This will entail

    Developing digital twins for the semiconductor industry, which digitally model the supply and value chain and enable sovereign and secure data exchange, including their connectivity to other value partners.

    Enabling efficient, sustainable and resilient semiconductor operations through industry-wide digitalization and dataspaces for improved value chain traceability.

    Enhancing deep digitalization capabilities among value chain partners, especially small and medium businesses (SMBs).

    Developing new data-driven business models and encouraging innovation.

    Enabling deep interoperability and AI applications by digitalizing every asset and entity in the semiconductor value chain.

    Ensuring the availability of semiconductors to key European technologies and industries.

    Horizontal. Vertical. Continuous: Industry-specific implementation clusters

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    Cluster 1

    Resilient value chains for a heterogeneous integration ecosystem

    Building competitive and resilient value chains through the comprehensive heterogeneous integration of partners involved in the packaging technology. The semiconductor industry’s complex inbound supply chain comprises 1000 processing steps and crosses over seventy borders.

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    Cluster 2

    Resilient network nodes: digital integration for optimized factory operations

    Developing concepts, semantic data models and services for intercompany data exchange in network nodes and the integration of data from and services for factory and supply chain assets in the dataspace.

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    Cluster 3

    Sustainability: environmentally optimized processes

    Developing the methodology for storing the life cycle assessment data sets in semantic submodels of the digital twin. Optimizations of the digital twin using machine learning and statistical mathematics.

    Project Partners

    Intel Deutschland GmbH
    Fraunhofer IFF
    Fraunhofer EMFT
    Fraunhofer IIS
    Fraunhofer IWU
    Fraunhofer IZM
     
    DAS Environmental
    Expert GmbH
    Elmos Semiconductor SE
     
    Expo21XX GmbH
    (KIWAI Division)
    HTW Dresden
     
    HQ-Dielectrics GmbH
    Infineon Technologies AG
    Merck Electronics KGaA
    OmegaLambdaTec GmbH
    OptWare GmbH
    Robert Bosch Semiconductor
    Manufacturing Dresden GmbH
    SAP SE
     
    Siemens AG
     
    Systema GmbH
     

    Associated Partners

    Athinia Technologies
     
    DHL Customer
    Solutions & Innovations
    DLR e.V.
     
    NetApp Deutschland GmbH
     
    Pfeiffer Vacuum
     
    Resonac Holdings K.K.
    Roseman Labs
    SEMI
    Siemens Digital Logistics
    Swissbit Germany AG
    Texas Instruments
    Deutschland GmbH
    VDMA
     
    ZVEI e.V.
     

    Semiconductor-X is a Manufacturing-X project focused on the semiconductor industry

    Semiconductor-X aims to adapt Gaia-X/Catena-X dataspace architecture to the semiconductor industry and to develop advanced digital twins that digitally model critical planning segments of the semiconductor supply and value chain. The project will also integrate established industry standards into this new dataspace architecture.

    Interested? Contact us!

    Harald Gossner

    Intel Deutschland (Project lead)

    Tobias Kutzler

    Fraunhofer IFF
    Digital Logistics Infrastructures and Systems Group Manager

    tobias.kutzler(at)iff.fraunhofer.de