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Semiconductors grants

Explore grants for semiconductor companies. This directory covers funding for chip design, fabrication and packaging, compound semiconductors, power electronics and the equipment and materials behind them, from national chips programs, research councils and industry consortia.

Showing 313-336 of 1,151 grants

Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU) logo
Closed

Advanced packaging of chiplets and heterogeneous integration in Europe

🇪🇺Chips JU · European Union

Funds one consortium to coordinate Europe's advanced-packaging semiconductor ecosystem across supply-chain resilience, standardisation and workforce training.

Semiconductors
€500K – €2M
Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU) logo
Closed

AI-assisted Methods and Tools for Engineering Automation (Chips JU 2025 call)

🇪🇺Chips JU · European Union

Funds one team building an open AI-assisted platform, including generative AI, that automates chip and software-defined-vehicle engineering tasks across design, deployment and maintenance.

SemiconductorsAI
€1M – €20M
Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU) logo
Closed

AI-assisted Methods and Tools for Engineering Automation (Chips JU 2026 call)

🇪🇺Chips JU · European Union

Funds one team building an open AI-assisted platform, including generative AI, that automates chip and software-defined-vehicle engineering tasks across design, deployment and maintenance.

SemiconductorsAI
€1M – €20M
Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC) logo
Closed

AI:360 Global Startup Competition 2026

XTC · United States

Gives selected applied-AI startups a live pitch slot at XTC's AI:360 Summit plus investor and partner introductions.

AIEnergy Tech+6
Innoviris (Brussels-Capital Region) logo
Closed

BELCOO — Transregional R&D

🇧🇪Innoviris · Belgium

Funds Brussels companies collaborating on R&D projects with enterprises from Flanders or Wallonia, through the joint Belgian interregional innovation co-funding initiative.

AIAgritech+13
Bulgarian Ministry of Innovation logo
Closed

BG16RFPR001-1.001 Development of Innovations in Enterprises

🇧🇬Bulgarian Ministry of Innovati · United Kingdom

Funds Bulgarian enterprises conducting R&D across five deep-tech thematic areas under the EU-backed Competitiveness and Innovation in Enterprises Programme.

AIBiotech+6
BGN 50K – BGN 400K
Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) logo
Closed

BRIDGE

🇦🇹FFG · Austria

Funds Austrian science-industry consortia transferring basic research toward industrial applications.

AIBiotech+11
Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU) logo
Closed

Call with Digital Partnership and TTC countries

Chips JU · European Union

Funds joint EU-partner-country research on neuromorphic computing, advanced packaging and semiconductor manufacturing.

SemiconductorsPhotonics
€1M – €5M
European Defence Fund (DG DEFIS) logo
Closed

Chiplet for Defence Application

🇪🇺EDF · European Union

Funds research into a shared EU chiplet library that lets defence electronics mix and match chip building blocks instead of custom ASICs.

DefenseSemiconductors
European Commission logo
Closed

Chips JU — Power Electronics

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds European semiconductor consortia developing power electronics for advanced hardware.

SemiconductorsHardware+2
CHIPS for America (CHIPS Program Office / CHIPS R&D Office) logo
Closed

CHIPS Metrology SBIR — Phase I

🇺🇸CHIPS for America · United States

Funds U.S. small businesses developing semiconductor measurement tools, instrumentation, and metrologies for the domestic chip-making supply chain.

SemiconductorsAdvanced Manufacturing+4
$284K
DOE Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation (formerly EERE) logo
Closed

CMMA Topic Area 2 — Semiconductor Material Refining and Alloying

🇺🇸CMEI (formerly EERE) · United States

Supports innovative refining and alloying to improve semiconductor-related material performance.

Advanced MaterialsSemiconductors+1
Bpifrance logo
Closed

Concours d'innovation i-PhD — 7e édition

🇫🇷Bpifrance · France

Supports PhD founders building deep-tech companies with entrepreneurship guidance programs.

BiotechAI+7
Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU) logo
Closed

Coordination of the European software-defined vehicle platform

Chips JU · European Union

Funds one coordination action steering Europe's open-source, software-defined autonomous-driving vehicle stack.

MobilitySemiconductors
€1M – €2M
Hangzhou Municipal Human Resources & Social Security Bureau logo
Closed

Creating the World Competition

🇨🇳Hangzhou HR & Social Security Bureau · China

Administers Hangzhou's Creating the World competition for overseas returnees and foreign nationals launching technology ventures.

AIBiotech+5
CN¥10K – CN¥5M
AMMTO — DOE Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office logo
Closed

Critical Minerals & Materials Accelerator — Topic 2: Semiconductor Material Refining

🇺🇸DOE AMMTO · United States

Connects research teams and institutions for Critical Minerals & Materials Accelerator: Semiconductor in materials science, semiconductors, and energy systems.

Advanced MaterialsSemiconductors+1
Global Startup EXPO 2026 logo
Closed

DeepTech Frontier Challenge 2026

Global Startup EXPO · Japan

Pays a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups from Japan and overseas that pitch cutting-edge, research-rooted technology at Global Startup EXPO 2026 in Osaka.

AIRobotics+5
¥10M
Global Startup EXPO 2026, funded through the Osaka Prefectural Accommodation Tax logo
Closed

DeepTech Frontier Challenge 2026

Global Startup EXPO · Japan

Awards a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups pitching at Global Startup EXPO 2026.

AIRobotics+6
¥10M
European Defence Fund (DG DEFIS) logo
Closed

EDF Development Actions

🇪🇺EDF · European Union

Funds defence technology validation and prototype demonstration across digital transformation, air defence, and space integration.

DefenseAI+7
€5M – €150M
European Defence Fund (DG DEFIS) logo
Closed

EDF Research Actions

🇪🇺EDF · European Union

Funds collaborative European defense research consortia delivering disruptive solutions across security, space, and quantum technologies.

DefenseAI+7
€3M – €80M
Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU) logo
Closed

Edge AI chip prototypes for ultra-low-power, on-device intelligence

🇪🇺Chips JU · European Union

Funds up to four teams to build edge AI chip prototypes that combine real-time on-device learning with ultra-low power consumption.

SemiconductorsAI+1
€1M – €5M
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council logo
Closed

EPSRC Network Plus: Materials Innovation Programme Coordination

🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom

Supports United Kingdom materials innovators through networked collaboration and shared innovation roadmaps.

Advanced MaterialsEnergy Tech+3
£1.4M
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council logo
Closed

EPSRC Prosperity Partnerships Round 7

🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom

Supports United Kingdom business-academia teams through partnerships that build strategic innovation in priority sectors.

AIQuantum+7
£500K
Information Technology Industry Development Agency logo
Closed

ESITIP — Egyptian-Spanish IT Innovation Program

🇪🇬ITIDA · Egypt

Supports Egyptian and Spanish firms in joint innovation for digital solutions and market access.

AICybersecurity+4
EGP 3M

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