• Worldwide turnover of microelectronics at about €300 billion per year
• Firm international consolidation of the microelectronics industry over the last two years
• Reached the limits of CMOS miniaturization related to the end programmed in Moore’s law
• High flexibility of research and development teams required to export nanoelectronic know-how into other spheres of use: objects for communication, automobiles, health, biology, photonics

Challenges

• Pursue the miniaturization of 22nm, 14nm and 10nm FD-SOI transistors
• Integrate new materials with high mobility for the latest generation of transistors
• Develop new embedded memory technologies
• Develop synergies between upstream academic research and technological research
• Transfer acquired expertise to microelectronic equipment manufacturers