CSconnected partners receive 6 project awards from Innovate UK Semiconductor competition

07th October 2024

CSconnected partners are involved in 6 out of 16 awards from Innovate UK’s Improving and Scaling-up Semiconductor Manufacturing competition as part of a collaborative R&D drive into ways to:

• scale up semiconductor manufacturing within the UK;
• improve supply chain resilience within the UK;
• establish innovations and new manufacturing techniques;
• expand the capability or performance of existing manufacturing techniques;
• encourage relationships between product designers and manufacturers to develop new manufacturing techniques or expanding capability;
• encourage new collaborations across industry and academia.

Wyn Meredith, Chair, CSconnected, said:

“It’s fantastic to see so many partners from the South Wales Semiconductor Cluster getting involved in Collaborative Research and Development. It demonstrates our commitment to build the UK Semiconductor ecosystem, and the need for Innovation to take advantage of a global market opportunity in semiconductor technologies that is set to exceed $1T per annum by 2030”

The 6 project titles, their grants and the participants are:

Industrial epitaxy of ULTRARAM computer memory — £680,675 to:

• Quinas Technology Ltd,
• Cardiff University,
• IQE plc,
• Lancaster University.

Commodity High Performance InP lasers on a 6” wafer platform (CHIPIN6) — £409,942 to:

• Compound Semiconductor Centre Ltd,
• Ffotoneg Ltd,
• SPTS Technologies Ltd,
• Cardiff University.

Semiconductor impact calculator ‘RESiLABLE’ to deeply decarbonise and increase supply-chain resilience of UK semiconductor manufacturing — £256,500 to:

• Minviro Ltd,
• Swansea University.

Onshoring and Scale Up of 3c-SiC substrates for cubic GaN microLEDs — £303,125 to:

• Kubos Semiconductors Ltd,
• Advanced Epi Materials And Devices Ltd,
• Oxford Instrument plc,
• Wafer Technology Ltd.

UK integrated supply chain to support Vishay (UKISC-V) — £321,184 to:

• RAM Innovations Ltd,
• KuasaSemi Ltd,
• Vishay Ltd.

APEX-G (Advanced high-power, extended-wavelength VCSEL arrays for volume infrared and green laser applications) — £608,210 to:

• Integrated Compound Semiconductors Ltd,
• NPL Management Ltd,
• Microchip Technology Caldicot Ltd,
• Compound Semiconductor Centre Ltd

Further details on the full project list can be found here: £11.5m to improve semiconductor manufacturing and supply chains – UKRI