Industries

Semiconductors

Europe's chip manufacturing base: fabs, materials, lithography and the sovereignty stakes behind them.

9 published dossiers

Coverage

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SKILLS DEVELOPMENT·March 7, 2026

12 min

The Semiconductor Skills Stack — What STMicro, ASML, and Soitec Actually Want

A definitive guide to the technical skills, certifications, and career pathways that Europe's leading semiconductor companies are actively hiring for in 2026.

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INDUSTRY TRENDS·March 4, 2026

14 min

The €100B Reindustrialization Map — Every Major Investment Reshaping European Manufacturing

Europe announced over EUR 100 billion of industrial investment. Some of it is producing, some has slipped by years, one flagship went bankrupt. Where the jobs actually are.

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INDUSTRY TRENDS·February 24, 2026

11 min

Soitec, CEA-Leti and the Materials Layer: Where Europe Actually Owns the Chip Stack

Europe does not lead in logic nodes. It leads in engineered substrates. Inside Soitec, CEA-Leti and the Grenoble materials layer — and the careers built on it.

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CAREER EXPLORATION·February 20, 2026

11 min

Inside Crolles 3 — Europe's Most Advanced Semiconductor Fab

Inside the Grésivaudan valley, STMicroelectronics' 300 mm build-out with GlobalFoundries is the physical test of Europe's chip strategy. A sourced analysis of the FD-SOI bet, the six job families a fab actually hires, the supplier layer, and the four risks that could slow the ramp.

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CAREER EXPLORATION·February 14, 2026

13 min

High-NA EUV: Inside the Hardest Machine in Europe — and the Careers It Creates

High-NA EUV is not smaller light. It is a bigger aperture, a halved exposure field, and a physics problem that decides schedules. Here is the work, and who gets hired to do it.

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COMPANY DEEP-DIVES·March 8, 2025

12 min

STMicroelectronics: Hiring Inside a Downturn — Power, SiC and the 300 mm Reset

STMicroelectronics is expanding capacity while its revenue falls. That contradiction is deliberate, and understanding it is the difference between a good semiconductor career decision and a bad one.

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INDUSTRY TRENDS·March 9, 2026

8 min

France 2030 and the deeptech bet — how state-funded science actually hires

France committed EUR 54 billion to industrial and deeptech renewal. Here is how that capital reaches a payroll, which ventures survived, and the roles it creates.

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INDUSTRY TRENDS·March 3, 2026

13 min

2026 European Tech Hiring: Where the Next 200,000 Roles Actually Come From

Most hiring forecasts are a number without a method. This one shows the arithmetic: the population base, the growth rate, the replacement demand, and the assumptions that would break it — sector by sector and country by country.

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INDUSTRY TRENDS·March 9, 2025

13 min

ASML: The Company That Sells Resolution — Inside the Monopoly, and the Careers It Creates

One Dutch company decides how small a transistor can be. Why that monopoly holds — supplier orchestration and service revenue, not patents alone — tells you which engineering careers inside it compound.