Why Chip Cooling and Heat Recovery Matters
Global semiconductor supplier interview with Benjamin Kabil,
business developer, global semiconductor sales, Alfa Laval
Halmstad University & open laboratories
Halmstad University has built one of Sweden’s key EMC facilities and maintains strong ties between academia and industry through laboratories, advanced research, and education rooted in industrial reality.
Seeing what others can’t: IRnova
Industry interview with Linda Höglund, R&D Manager at IRnova – specialized semiconductor company manufacturing high-performance infrared detectors for defence, space, and industrial use.
Get to know Sweden’s key competence hubs
Article series: Sweden semiconductor strength is built from the ground up with several regional ecosystems that act as innovation nodes, industrial clusters, and collaborative platforms all at once. Get to know each regional hub presented in the series.
Competence hub: Gothenburg & Västra Götaland
Anchored by Chalmers University of Technology and powered by a semiconductor-intense industrial base, the Gothenburg region and Västra Götaland combines world-class Radio Frequency (RF) and chip design expertise with globally competitive end-users. This makes the area one of Sweden’s strategically important semiconductor clusters.
Competence hub: Halmstad – Halland
Anchored at Halmstad University and Electronics Centre in Halmstad (ECH) – the Halmstad-Halland regional competence hub in semiconductors brings together academia, industry and innovation actors to strengthen applied electronics development, testing infrastructure and competence supply in the region.
Competence Hub: Skåne – Lund/Malmö
Located less than an hour from Copenhagen Airport, Skåne brings together leading research, innovative start-ups and global companies in one connected region. Here, in the southern parts of Sweden, new sustainable materials and technologies are developed for future electronics and connected systems – including semiconductors, power systems and devices.
Semiconductor 2026: it’s a wrap!
Sweden’s semiconductor ecosystem came together under one roof on April 15th, co-hosted with Elektronikmässan 2026 at Åby Arena. Researchers, policymakers, startups, industrial leaders and defence representatives — all in the same room, all pointing in the same direction.
A strategic area for the car industry
Industry interview with Parvaneh Parhizkari,
Semiconductor Strategist at Volvo Cars
Competence Hub: Uppsala
Anchored by Sweden’s largest academic cleanroom, Uppsala strengthens Sweden’s chip agenda through materials, device prototyping and test access – especially for life-science instrumentation, sensors and energy-related electronics.