117.2 million euro for microelectronics research in Berlin and Brandenburg
To strengthen the position of the European semiconductor and electronics industry in the global competition, the across locational “Forschungsfabrik Mikroelektronik Deutschland” (FMD) emerges at eleven institutes of the Fraunhofer Group for Microelectronics and two institutes of the Leibniz association. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research supports the FMD in total with about 350 million euro. The FMD in Berlin and Brandenburg was opened by federal minister Johanna Wanka on July 6.