CSConnected Project Receives Funding by UK Research And Innovation’s Strength In Places Fund

The UK Government has announced the first wave of moneying through UK Research and Development‘s flagship Strength in Places Fund in which a significant ₤ 43.74 M job with South Wales’ compound semiconductor cluster has actually been authorized and will be supported by ₤ 25.44 M financing from Strength in Places.

The project “CSConnected” is based around incorporating research quality with the special local supply chains in sophisticated semiconductor manufacturing.

Substance semiconductors are critical elements across a wide variety of new technologies and the main objective of the CSconnected task is to establish a competitive benefit in key making it possible for technologies which will enable the UK to increase trade globally in crucial sectors such as interactions, 5G, self-governing and electric automobiles, medical devices– all chances the UK must act on to secure our long-term future prosperity.

The twelve project partners consist of:

Cardiff University (lead partner)
Cardiff Capital Area City Deal
Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult
Compound Semiconductor Centre (CSC)
IQE Plc
MicroLink Gadgets UK Ltd
Newport Wafer Fab (NWF)
Rockley Photonics
Swansea University
SPTS Technologies
Welsh Federal governmentActivities to be coordinated by CSconnected Limited.

Dr. Wyn Meredith, CSC and lead author of the SIPF application commented, “Today’s statement is outstanding news for Wales and the UK, supplying an unique chance to harness the outstanding research and innovation abilities in a manner that translates into world-class UK based making for brand-new and emerging global innovation markets.”