Together with colleagues from Technical University of Denmark, the University of Copenhagen and the Danish National Metrology Institute (DFM), researchers from Aarhus University will work closely with industry at the new centre, which will be headquartered at DTU.

Danish start-ups and SMEs, for example, can seek out advice and expertise from the centre, and borrow highly specialised equipment. Aarhus University will manage the centre's scientific activities within chip design, and Farshad Moradi, professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at AU, is looking forward to collaborating with the other partners at the centre:

"The chip industry is growing rapidly and demand for better and smarter chips keeps increasing. At the new centre, we can consolidate and strengthen the entire Danish chip design ecosystem and improve collaboration between industry and research. This can help raise the technological profile of companies significantly and increase their competitiveness," he says.

Immense potential for innovation

Mikael Bergholz Knudsen, head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at AU, sees great potential in the new centre and is confident that Aarhus University will help promote Denmark as a global player within advanced chip design.

"We have a significant research stronghold within chip design, and our ambition is to educate more skilled engineers within the field and thus help companies gain access to highly qualified labour," he says.

The centre is being funded by the EU and the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science with a budget of DKK 57 million over the next four years. Together with similar centres in other European countries, the centre will support the EU's ambition to double the production of chips in Europe by 2030.

More information

Visit Danish Chips Competence Centre on the centre's website