The Switzerland-based STMicroelectronics (ST) is to invest EUR730 million (approx. US$716 million) over the next five years to build a silicon carbide (SiC) fab in Italy - its first SiC fab in Europe.

STMicroelectronics has announced plans to build a giant factory in Italy that will make specialist microchips for EVs and other high-voltage power devices. The Swiss firm is the world’s largest ...

As US President Joe Biden prepares to leave office on January 20, 2025, concluding a presidency marked by CHIPS Act initiatives to expand US semiconductor manufacturing, Europe's parallel attempts to ...

STMicroelectronics will likely decide on a further expansion of its Crolles chipmaking site in France by the end of 2026, as demand for silicon photonics used in AI data centres ​accelerates, its ...