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# imec led consortium launches EU Chips Design Platform for European chip startups
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-04-29-imec-eu-chips-design-platform/
- Published: 2025-04-29T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:03:00.000Z
- Description: Imec and eleven partners, including CEA, Fraunhofer and Italy's Fondazione Chips-IT, launched the EU Chips Design Platform under the Chips Act. It gives fabless startups and SMEs shared EDA tools, design IP and a route to fabrication through 2028.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Compute and infrastructure, Industry, investment and R&D, #news, #verified, #ai-drafted

Verified AI-drafted [imec press release, 29 April 2025](https://www.imec-int.com/en/press/imec-coordinates-eu-chips-design-platform?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** The Chips Joint Undertaking grant agreement funding the platform was not yet signed, and no startup had yet used it.

**How this item counts.** This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/).

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