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MEDIA: A successful European cooperation in microelectronics

Microelectronics pervades our lives. We benefit from microelectronics advances in many areas from automotive engine management to virtual video games and from advanced medical diagnostics to complex, fast information transmission via satellite networks. Electronic components form the heart of sophisticated products, and performance requirements on systems and devices continue to soar. The microelectronics industry is the fastest growing industry with the largest impact on the gross national product of the industrialized countries. The economy of countries and regions depends on access to microelectronics; a strong local position is of significant importance. Governments of highly industrialized countries support their microelectronics industry in one way or the other, either by research grants, investment facilities, or support of cooperational research and development programs. IST (Information Society Technologies) and MEDEA (Microelectronics Development for European Applications) are two important European R&D programs involving IC manufacturers, system houses, institutes, and universities. They are complementary in many aspects. The IST program launched by the European Commission in 1999 runs for four years as part of the Fifth Framework program. IST addresses a broad range of issues related to information societies under four key actions, one of them covering microelectronics. The European Commission centrally funds and conducts the program. Key European silicon IC manufacturers and the electronics systems industry set up MEDEA, the largest European cooperative program. It was endorsed as Eureka project E! 1535 by the European Ministerial Conference in 1996. National European governments support Eureka projects. Approximately 130 partners from 11 countries cooperate on 45 MEDEA projects; almost all are funded by their national governments. MEDEA aims at a strong, healthy European microelectronics industry in the areas of systems applications and IC technology. It focuses on the necessary R&D work according to the needs of the electronics systems industry. Industry drives the highly focused program. Large-, small-, and medium-size industrial Dieter Gotz Anton Sauer