India, Feb. 3 -- FAMES Pilot Line was officially inaugurated Jan. 30, two years after it began, now delivering validated technical results across advanced FD-SOI, RF, embedded non-volatile memories, 3D integration technologies, and power management ICs.

Those results, produced on a 300mm line, and reported at leading international conferences, confirm that the European tech-sovereignty initiative is already operating as a working European semiconductor capability.

The inauguration, attended by more than 350 people, marks the launch of a cleanroom extension at CEA-Leti's Grenoble site. The open-access feature of the pilot line makes the FAMES technologies accessible primarily, but not exclusively, to European startups, SMEs, industrial g...