He Government has approved in the Council of Ministers held yesterday Tuesday An investment of 37 million euros in two Spanish technology. They are the Galician Sparcspecialized in integrated photonics; and the Murcia Quantix Edge Securitydedicated to cybersecurity. The investment will be made through Spanish society for technological transformation, which is known as SETT or SEPI Digital.
SPARC will take 17.2 million euros, and dedicate them to the start -up of a plant located in Vigo (Pontevedra), in which it is planned to believe around 200 direct and 550 indirect jobs. According to the Ministry for Digital Transformation, the contribution that the Government will make «It is a 43.9% capital expansion of the company, together with strategic partners such as the Indra technological giant, the active Vigo society and the consortium of the free zone, will provide a great impact on talent retention, use of advanced technology and development of the SME fabric in Spain in Spain«.
This plant will be dedicated to the production of integrated photonic circuits, as well as wafers of different materials, and ensure that it will have an impact on the null or minimum environment. The objective of government investment is to develop a photonic ecosystem that covers the demand of the European market. It will have a theoretical manufacturing capacity of 20,000 wafers a year.
At the same time, Indra has confirmed that it has become its majority shareholder, by taking 37% of SPARC shares. The SETT will now be its second largest shareholder, with 31.8%, and the majority shareholder so far, Vigo Active, is 8% of its share capital.
The Ministry stressed that the investment contributes to the strategic autonomy of Spain and Europe and is a commitment to innovation to meet needs in various sectors: automotive, security, communications, quantum computing, consumer electronics or medicine.
In addition, they pretend that The SPARC plant helps to cover part of the productive semiconductor deficit in Europewhich represents less than 10% of the global production capacity, and that contributes to the objective of achieving a 20% production share that has been set with the EU chips law by 2030.
As for the investment in Quantix, of 19.6 million euros, it will be to establish a technological center of cybersecurity and customization of chips in Murcia. The SEPI Digital will have a 49% participation in Quantix following this investment. The company is also participated by Spanish technology Odins, Tprotege, the Switzerland Wisekey and the French Seaisq.
The center will deal with the development of technology for safe elements, such as cryptographic keys, security modules or certificates. It will also produce, customize and encapsulate microchips, and will have a white room, a research and development of microelectronics, as well as wafering test.
The plant is expected to entail the creation of 40 jobs in its first two years of activity, 70 in the third and 152 after five years. The objective is that you have 250 workers when you are in your eighth year of activity.
Your target market is focused on post -quantum resistant productswhich in 2030 will be considered fundamental for government applications such as passports, defense or access control. Also for sensitive applications of the private environment, such as authentication in cloud storage, web transactions or medical reports.
