European microelectronics Company Clusters: Hubs of Chip Design

From the hundreds of semiconductors and IC Design companies around Europe, many of them tend to be located together or very near.

As I was searching in Europe for an analog IC design job after university, I’ve noticed that most of the companies are settled together in specific regions, forming hubs or the so-called company clusters. Most of them are nowadays fabless.

In this post, I will list the European hubs I found naming some of the companies I discover in that area:

Antibes (around Marsella)

• • Microchip
  • Maxim Integrated
  • INVIA
  • StarChip
  • Macom
  • ARM

  Grenoble-Isère (named MinaLogic)

• • Dolphin Integration
  • ST
  • Cadence
  • Allegro DVT
  • StarChip
  • Spintec
  • MinaTec
  • IRT Nanoelectronics
    IC Alps
  • Scalinx
  • EasiIC

 Milano-Padova

• • Maxin Integrated
  • eSilicon
  • Micron
  • Infineon
  • Silicon Mitus
  • AMS
  • Allegro

  Silicon Saxony

• Erfurt
  • Melexis
  • IMMS
  • X-Fab
  • Fraunehofer
• Dresden
  • Racytics
  • Photronics
  • Global Foundaries
• Nürnberg
  • Frauenhofer

München

• • Apple
  • Texas Instruments
  • Bosch Group
  • Silicon Line
  • Dialog Semi

Graz (SiliconAlps)

• • AMS
  • Infineon
  • NXP
  • Dialog Semiconductor

Leuven (around Brussels) (Named DSP Valley)

• • ICsense (Leuven)
  • Imen (Leuven)
  • Nsitlition
  • Caeleste
  • Melexis

Catania (Sicilia):

• • Analog Devices
  • ST microelectronics
  • NXP

Other global locations:

• • Banglore (India)
  • Noida (india)
  • Singapore
  • Penang (Malaysia)
  • San José (USA)
  • China
  • Patras (Greece)
  • Taiwan
  • Cork (Ireland)
  • Cambridge