Engineer the future while reinventing how chips are made.

A Global Industry, Built to Power the Future

Global semiconductor sales reached a record $791.7 billion in 2025, up 25.6% year on year, with the industry on track to cross $1 trillion in 2026.

This scale spans every major hub:

United States: a $52.7 billion CHIPS Act that has unlocked more than $600 billion in private semiconductor investment commitments across over 130 projects.
Germany: home to Europe’s largest semiconductor manufacturing hub in Dresden, anchoring a single new facility investment exceeding €10 billion.
France: a €5.5 billion national semiconductor strategy under France 2030, built around its Grenoble microelectronics cluster.
European Union: a Chips Act aiming to double Europe’s global market share from around 10% to 20% by 2030, backed by more than €80 billion in investment to date.

Companies across the sector share the same challenge: scaling advanced chip production fast enough to meet surging demand from AI, while securing supply chains and closing the gap with the most advanced global manufacturers. This is where ABGi operates, helping them secure R&D tax credits and innovation funding to power that race.

Key Strategic and Operational Challenges for the Sector

Energy and Resource Intensity

Managing the high energy and water consumption of chip fabrication amid tightening environmental standards.

Talent and Skills Shortage

Attracting and training engineers and technicians for an industry facing acute recruitment challenges at every skill level.

Advanced Node Development

Pushing toward smaller, more powerful chip architectures such as 3nm and 2nm nodes to keep pace with AI and high performance computing demand.

SUPPLY Chain Sovereignty

Reducing dependency on a small number of global manufacturers and securing access to critical raw materials.

Capacity Scaling and Capital Intensity

Building new fabs at multi billion euro cost per site, with long lead times between investment and production.

GEOPOLITICAL and Export Control Risk

Navigating export restrictions, trade tensions and shifting alliances that shape access to technology and markets.

Key figures for the sector

$ 791.7B

Global semiconductor sales in 2025, a record high

$ 1T

Projected global semiconductor sales in 2026

25.6 %

Year on year growth in global semiconductor sales in 2025

20 %

Target share of the global semiconductor market the EU aims to reach by 2030, doubling its current position

Focus on the 4 Strategic Levers

Innovation

Research and development of next generation chip architectures, including advanced nodes and chiplets.
Development of new materials and packaging technologies to improve performance and energy efficiency.
Innovation in design tools and simulation to accelerate time to market for new components.

Operations & Performance

Scaling fab capacity and yield to meet surging demand from AI and high performance computing.
Optimising complex, multi tier global supply chains spanning materials, equipment and packaging.
Building more resilient and geographically diversified manufacturing footprints.

Technology

AI and machine learning to optimise chip design, testing and predictive maintenance in fabs.
Advanced lithography and etching technologies to enable smaller, more powerful nodes.
Automation and robotics to improve precision and throughput across cleanroom operations.

ESG & Sustainability

Reducing the energy and water intensity of semiconductor fabrication.
Scaling recycling and circular economy approaches for rare materials and chemicals used in production.
Improving the energy efficiency of chips themselves to reduce the footprint of connected devices and data centres.

Our Aerospace and Aeronautics experts

Our experts combine deep, sector specific knowledge of the aerospace and aeronautics industry with a forward looking view of the market across our footprint in Europe and the Americas, and a thorough analysis of the opportunities available to companies wherever they operate.

Aurore TINANT, Scientific Expert

Aurore TINANT - expert scientifique ABGi

Aurore holds a PhD in Astrophysics – specializing in image processing and analysis (Aix-Marseille University / CPPM / LAM). She has been supporting her clients in the research tax financing sector for 7 years. Its preferred sectors are: IT, Artificial intelligence, Image processing, and Physics / Space sciences.

Lénaïc MALLET, Scientific Expert

Holder of an engineering degree from Telecom Saint Etienne – electronics and embedded systems. He works with clients in the field of tax-funded research and the management of their innovations.