EU aims to be independent chip power with 20% global share

Plan seeks to buffer bloc from US-China tensions that disrupt supply chains

A technician adjusts a laser at Trumpf, a German company that supplies CO2 laser technology to Dutch ASML, a leader in semiconductor lithography machines. © Reuters

YASUO TAKEUCHI, Nikkei staff writer

March 10, 2021 03:16 JST

BRUSSELS -- The European Union put forward a plan Tuesday that called for the bloc to produce a fifth of advanced semiconductors worldwide in a vision that echoes the U.S. pursuit of a tech supply chain that is independent of China.