Why Now is the Time to Invest in Chip-to-System industrialisation Leadership

The set of recommendations from the European System-driven Semiconductor Initiative (ESSI) is the next vital evolution in Europe’s semiconductor strategy.
It is designed to leverage the EU R&D investment to induce the strongest market impact—fast.

From Research to Revenue: the Critical Gap

The €90+B invested by the EU is slow to flow into industrial value or market deployment
ESSI proposes to bridge the gap: enabling prototypes and Proof-of-Concepts to be qualified, integrated and deployed in systems, much faster and at broader scale.

Focused on industrialisation, to complement and extend research
Driven by industry experts, to relay the academic community focused on R&D

ESSI can be seen as the industrial twin of Chips JU.
Where Chips JU sows seeds of innovation, ESSI cultivates industrial value generation.

Chips JU and ESSI — Complementary Roles

	Chips JU / AENEAS / EPOSS / INSIDE	ESSI
Primary Focus	Research & Prototypes	Adoption & Deployment
Success Metrics	IP, papers, early tech validation	Revenue, jobs, investments, EU growth
Leadership	Association-driven	Expert-led coordination team
Mechanism	R&D calls and project clustering	System integration, acceleration, and scale-up

A Small Investment to Unlock Major Impact

ESSI needs only few 100K€/year to fund a dedicated experienced team to:

Coordinate and lead execution
Deliver a deployment blueprint and engage EU system makers

⟳ Enable EU chips to reach systems, markets, and investors, faster and with higher success-rate
⚙ Build sovereign technology "stacks" across key EU industries
🚀 Position Europe to regain a lead in the AI + software-defined systems era

Join us. Let’s make European chips matter — in systems, where it counts.