About EuroCDP
EuroCDP – the European Chips Design Platform – is being built to accelerate chip innovation across Europe.
It is designed to support startups, SMEs, research teams, and other fabless innovators with streamlined access to everything needed to design and launch microchips: design tools, IP, expert support, prototyping, fabrication, packaging, testing, training, funding, and dedicated startup programs.
EuroCDP acts as a one-stop platform for chip design, helping users move faster from concept to functioning chips. Whether you’re exploring a proof-of-concept or preparing for market launch, the platform connects you with the right resources at every stage of the journey.
The platform will serve organizations based in EU Member States and participating countries of the Chips Joint Undertaking. Initial services are expected to launch in early 2026, with the offering expanding as the platform evolves.
Built on Proven Foundations
EuroCDP builds on the legacy of Europractice, which has long supported European universities and research institutes with access to design tools, fabrication, and training.
Now, EuroCDP extends this model to startups and SMEs—bringing the same three pillars to a broader audience:
Access to advanced design tools and expertise
Access to fabrication through MPW runs
High-quality training and skills development
This ensures Europe’s fabless companies can innovate faster and compete globally, backed by a trusted and scalable approach.
Why Chip Design Matters
Microchips power the technologies that shape our lives—from smartphones and electric vehicles to medical devices and clean energy systems.
Yet most of these chips are not designed in Europe. While global chip sales have surged, Europe’s share in chip design has declined to just 7%. In the fast-growing fabless segment, Europe holds less than 1% of the global market.
This isn’t just a supply chain issue—it’s a strategic gap. Chip design defines functionality, efficiency, intellectual property, and value capture. If Europe doesn’t design the chips, it doesn’t define the future.
EuroCDP is part of a broader effort to change that. By making chip design more accessible, faster, and better supported, we’re helping build a resilient and competitive European semiconductor ecosystem.
Designed for Europe’s Innovators
EuroCDP is co-created and operated by a consortium of leading European institutions, combining deep expertise in microelectronics, design innovation, and technology development.
Together, we’re building a platform where chip design happens in Europe—where innovators thrive, and where the next generation of chips is not only made for Europe but designed in Europe.
Because this is about more than semiconductors. It’s about people, jobs, innovation, and sovereignty. It’s about ensuring that the technologies shaping our future reflect Europe’s values: open, fair, secure, and sustainable.
The future is being built now. Let’s make sure Europe is designing it.
EuroCDP is coordinated by imec and delivered through a strong European network of leading research and innovation organizations, including:
AGH University of Science and Technology (Krakow),
CEA – The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission,
Fondazione Chips-IT,
CSIC – The Spanish National Research Council,
CVUT – Czech Technical University,
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft,
IHP – Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics,
INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory,
Silicon Austria Labs,
Tampere University,
Eindhoven University of Technology.