€16m project to secure the chiplet supply chain in Europe

A German consortium is working on a €16m project to secure the supply chain for chiplets and boost final assembly in Europe. This is set to create new standards for chiplet assembly with secure elements and an end-to-end design flow.

The T4T project for ‘Distributed Manufacturing for Novel and Trustworthy Electronics’ includes leading manufacturers such as Bosch, X-Fab, Audi and Osram as well as researchers from various Fraunhofer Institutes.

The secure supply of electronic components is of growing strategic importance for Germany, as the relocation of chip making to non-European regions increases the vulnerability to the introduction of malware and espionage functions.

At the same time, the risk of intellectual property (IP) theft of circuit designs by third parties is also increasing, say researchers. So the project aims to add secure elements to chips and chiplets made in foundries in Asia with post-quantum encryption with assembly and encoding of the systems taking place in a trusted environment in Germany.

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