Jalisco announces a new chip design park to strengthen Mexico’s semiconductor industry

Jalisco plans to make the archetypal state-owned semiconductor plan parkland successful Latin America to grow Mexico’s semiconductor accumulation capacity, Governor Pablo Lemus Navarro announced connected Thursday. 

The task is successful enactment with the nationalist Kutsari project, a authorities inaugural aiming to coordinate the efforts of the nationalist and backstage sector, on with academia, to fortify Mexican semiconductor plan and production.

Part of the nation’s apical technological academy, the Cinvestav halfway successful the Guadalajara metropolitan country volition beryllium a cardinal constituent successful the improvement of the Kutsari task to fortify the semiconductor manufacture successful Mexico. (@PabloLemusN/X)

“Jalisco is location to 70% of the nationalist semiconductor industry, which is wherefore contiguous we observe partnering with Cinvestav [the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute], 1 of the country’s astir renowned technological institutions, to found the Jalisco State Semiconductor Park, which volition besides big the national Kutsari project,” the authorities authorities wrote connected Instagram connected Thursday.

The authorities authorities and Cinvestav signed an statement to make the parkland successful Mexico’s Bajío portion implicit 2 phases. 

The archetypal signifier includes an 18-million-peso (US $979,000) concern to accommodate the 2nd level astatine the existing Cinvestav facilities successful Zapopan, Jalisco, by March 2026. 

The 2nd signifier is the 50-million-peso (US $2.7 million) improvement of a imperishable 4,600-square-meter plan parkland wrong the aforesaid complex. 

“The nationalist Cinvestav volition beryllium successful complaint of moving the Kutsari project… done the Cinvestav Guadalajara campus,” Jalisco authorities Economic Development Minister Cindy Blanco Ochoa said. “What we, arsenic the State Semiconductor Design Park… are going to bash is to boost the manufacture due to the fact that this program and these courses are created by industry, taught by academia and facilitated by the government.” 

In February, President Claudia Sheinbaum presented the caller semiconductor inaugural that plans to marque Mexico’s manufacture a cardinal subordinate successful the planetary chips industry.

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Mexico presently imports much than US $20 cardinal worthy of integrated circuits annually, and the nationalist Kutsari task aims to trim the dependency connected semiconductor imports portion strengthening Mexico’s information successful the planetary chips proviso chain.

By 2030, the Jalisco parkland is expected to enactment the specialization of 3,000 semiconductor plan engineers, the instauration of 10 Jalisco-based startups dedicated to semiconductor design, and to triple overseas nonstop investment.

Jalisco already plays a large relation successful the plan signifier for semiconductors and is location to astir 8 companies dedicated to semiconductor manufacturing. 

The authorities hopes the parkland volition fortify Mexico’s estimation arsenic a planetary semiconductor powerfulness done the absorption connected 4 strategical pillars: creating specialized talent, fostering caller businesses, attracting much backstage investment, and processing a specialized program successful design.

With reports from El Economista and Informador