Switzerland Bets It Can Build the CERN of Semiconductors — and Reshape Europe’s Chip Future

Switzerland Bets It Can Build the CERN of Semiconductors — and Reshape Europe’s Chip Future

Switzerland wants to do for semiconductors what it did for particle physics. That’s the ambition behind a new research initiative that would position the country as the intellectual nerve center of Europe’s push to regain relevance in the global chip industry. The model is explicit: CERN, the sprawling physics laboratory on the Franco-Swiss border that discovered the Higgs boson and invented the World Wide Web. Now Swiss officials and researcher…