In the Alpine city of Villach, Austria, industrial engineer Andreas Wittmann surveyed his latest project — the EU’s newest chip factory.
“Twenty years ago it was not on our mental horizon to build a [semiconductor plant] in Europe,” he said, days before the €1.6bn facility’s official opening on Friday. But “the increase in automation has decreased the advantage of Asia”.
The executive at Europe’s largest chipmaker, Germany’s Infineon, did not have to labour his point.
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