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Dresden: Europe’s Micro and Nanoelectronics Hub

Intelligent systems will rule the digital world of the future. develop, manufacture and market integrated circuits or
And it will be the job of micro and nanoelectronics to provide the chip industry with materials and equipment.
provide the building blocks of this future world. On top of this, they produce and sell electronic products
and systems based on integrated circuits or develop and
market software. In August 2023, one of the world's
largest chipmakers, Taiwanese semiconductor manu-
facturer TSMC, announced plans to build a 10 billion
Euro plant in Dresden in partnership with Infineon Tech-
nologies, Bosch and NXP Semiconductors.

Together with the Saxon Ministry of Science, TU Dresden
plans to open a liaison office in Taiwan in October to
strengthen scientific cooperations with Taiwanese partner
universities and TSMC, including the implementation of
a joint study program.

In Dresden, Europe’s largest and most important micro Saxony is characterized by a strong academic environ-
and nanoelectronics hub, we are researching the tech- ment. Four universities, five universities of applied science,
nological foundations and innovative solutions for the nine Fraunhofer institutes, three Leibniz institutes, one
most pressing issues in close cooperation with the in- Helmholtz institute and two Max Planck institutes all
dustrial sector: energy and resource efficiency, human- conduct research in the field of micro and nanoelec-
machine interaction and real-time communication. tronics.

TU Dresden is the fulcrum of these endeavors. With its Above: Prof. Ronald Tetzlaff, CTIO TU Dresden / Image: Robert Lohse
extensive range of degrees tailored towards addressing Right: Waver processing at TUD in the cleanroom / Image: André Wirsig
these issues, the university ensures that experts in micro
and nanoelectronics enter the professional world both
locally and worldwide. CONTACT

We can already boast that every third chip manufactured Prof. Ronald Tetzlaff
in Europe comes from Dresden – and this trend will only Chief Officer Technology Transfer
continue to rise. In addition to the large semiconductor and Internationalisation //
and the microchip factories, around 2,500 companies in TU Dresden
Saxony with a total of 70,000 employees are active in the
field of information and communication technology: they ✉ ctio@ tu-dresden.de
tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/organisation/
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