With the help of the Estonian Chip Technology Competence Center, which will start working in April, local companies could learn to design and produce the chips they need in the same way that the world’s big names Nvidia, Apple and Qualcomm do, said TalTech professor Jaan Raik and Mart Toots, head of the Applied Research Department of the Enterprise and Innovation Foundation (EIS).
Jaan Raik spoke in more detail in Äripää radio’s Tuesday morning program that Estonia does not necessarily need to create a factory here to develop its chip industry. If we consider that Taiwanese company TSMC currently dominates outsourced chip manufacturing, it would be too much to hope that a separate factory would come to Estonia.
Toots said that the greatest benefit for entrepreneurs could come from the design of chips with the help of the competence center, and not so much from physical production.
Jaan Raik and Mart Toots were interviewed by Siim Sultson.
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