Silicon Saxony is a registered

industry association A trade association, also known as an industry trade group, business association, sector association or industry body, is an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry. An industry trade association partici ...

of nearly 300 companies in the microelectronics and related sectors in

Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...

, Germany, with around 40,000 employees. Many, but not all, of those firms are situated in the north of

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth lar ...

. With a name chosen referring to

Silicon Valley Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that serves as a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical areas San Mateo County ...

, the area and the union — in many aspects — represent the only meaningful European center of microelectronics. Many of those firms have very research and capital intensive business models competing with subsidized global players, mainly from

Asia Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa. Asia covers an area ...

Industrial fields

The companies develop and produce computer calculation and memory chips or new materials and electronics for solar companies. The developed and produced small semiconductors chips are used in all kinds of cars, mobile phones, TV sets and so on.

History

Even before Germany's reunification,

was a major center of

microelectronics Microelectronics is a subfield of electronics. As the name suggests, microelectronics relates to the study and manufacture (or microfabrication) of very small electronic designs and components. Usually, but not always, this means micrometre-sc ...

in the

Eastern bloc The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc and the Soviet Bloc, was the group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America under the influence of the Soviet Union that existed d ...

with 3,500 employees. While

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, an ...

, which has a long history in the south of eastern Germany, suffered after the collapse of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

, the microelectronics industry was, with public help from the state, one of the first industrial sectors in

to recover. Although having many more employees today than before 1990, the sector is constantly under pressure because

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its ea ...

in particular is very keen to attract the industry.

and Germany are however bound to the competition laws of the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been ...

, but was able to keep and expand most of the research parts of the industry that it had started with. These parts are seen as successful, but also as very risky whenever a larger company has serious problems because the sector demands a high concentration of resources to succeed.

Scientific environment

, as core-region of Silicon Saxony and yet without the headquarters of many of today's big companies, is nevertheless a very remarkable technology center with one large

Technical University An institute of technology (also referred to as: technological university, technical university, university of technology, technological educational institute, technical college, polytechnic university or just polytechnic) is an institution of te ...

(German TU), ten other universities and most of all an unparalleled density of semi-public institutes of applied high-technologies in many fields (for example the

Max Planck Society The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (german: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V.; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes. ...

Fraunhofer Society The Fraunhofer Society (german: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., lit=Fraunhofer Society for the Advancement of Applied Research) is a German research organization with 76institutes spread throughout Germany ...

, Leibniz institutes,

Helmholtz Association The Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (german: Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren) is the largest scientific organisation in Germany. It is a union of 18 scientific-technical and biological-medical research centers ...

and other German academic elite institutions).

Members list

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*3D Infotainment Technologies UG *3D-Micromac AG *4source electronics Aktiengesellschaft

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*A. Greitner Gebäudereinigung + Service GmbH *ACCRETECH (Europe) GmbH *Actemium Controlmatic Gesellschaft für Automation und Elektrotechnik mbH *Adenso GmbH *ADG Automatisierung Dresden GmbH *advanced clean production Information Technology AG *advanced data processing GmbH *Advanced Mask Technology Center GmbH & Co.KG *ADZ NAGANO GmbH *AHC Oberflächentechnik GmbH *

Air Liquide Air Liquide S.A. (; ; literally "liquid air"), is a French multinational company which supplies industrial gases and services to various industries including medical, chemical and electronic manufacturers. Founded in 1902, after Linde it is th ...

Electronics * Air Products GmbH *AIS Automation Dresden GmbH *ALLRESIST GmbH *alpha microelectronics *Alsco Berufsbekleidungs-Service GmbH *

AMEC Amec Foster Wheeler plc was a British multinational consultancy, engineering and project management company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. In October 2017, it was acquired by Wood Group. It was focused on the Oil, Gas & Chemicals, M ...

e.V. *Anvo-Systems Dresden GmbH *

Applied Materials Applied Materials, Inc. is an American corporation that supplies equipment, services and software for the manufacture of semiconductor (integrated circuit) chips for electronics, flat panel displays for computers, smartphones, televisions, and s ...

GmbH *aps Solutions GmbH *arias GmbH * ASML Germany GmbH *aSpect Systems GmbH *ASYS Automatic GmbH & Co. KG *ATEip *

ATMEL Atmel Corporation was a creator and manufacturer of semiconductors before being subsumed by Microchip Technology in 2016. Atmel was founded in 1984. The company focused on embedded systems built around microcontrollers. Its products included micr ...

Automotive GmbH *ATMI GmbH *ATT-Systems GmbH *AUMO GmbH *Avantgarde Labs GmbH * Axcelis Technologies GmbH *AZZURRO Semiconductors AG

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*B.E.S.T. Fluidsysteme GmbH, Leipzig - Berlin *Bildungsbüro Hochtechnologie *BITKOM *Brenntag GmbH *Brooks Automation (Germany) GmbH *Brooks Instrument GmbH *Busch Semiconductor Vacuum Group B.V. *buschmais GbR *Businessplan - Wettbewerb Sachsen GmbH

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Cadence Design Systems Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (stylized as cādence), headquartered in San Jose, California, is an American multinational computational software company, founded in 1988 by the merger of SDA Systems and ECAD, Inc. The company produces software, ...

GmbH *camLine Dresden GmbH * Carl Zeiss Innovationszentrum für Messtechnik * Cascade Microtech GmbH *Caterna GmbH *Centrotherm Clean Solutions GmbH & Co. KG *chip design *cleanpart Dresden GmbH & Co. KG *Cognex Germany *CommSolid GmbH *Communardo Software GmbH *Community ITsax.de *Compugraphics Jena GmbH *CONVANIT GbR *Creative Chips Dresden GmbH *Critical Manufacturing Deutschland GmbH *CS Clean Systems AG *CSS GmbH Dresden *CWE

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*Danco Technik GmbH *DAS Environmental Expert GmbH *Dastex Reinraumzubehör GmbH & Co. KG *DEAXO GmbH *DELTA Mikroelektronik *DERU Planungsgesellschaft für Energie-, Reinraum- und Umwelttechnik mbH *Deutsche Solar GmbH *DevBoost GmbH *DFMSim Inc. *DIAS Infrared GmbH *Digades GmbH *DIS AG *DIW Mechanical Engineering GmbH & Co. KG *DMOS GmbH *docemos GmbH *Dockweiler AG *Dorfner KG *Dream Chip Technologies GmbH *DREEBIT GmbH *DREMICUT GMBH *Drescher, Prof. Kurt *dresden elektronik ingenieurtechnik gmbh *Dresden Informatik GmbH *DTF Technology GmbH *DUALIS GmbH IT Solution *Dynamic Micro Systems Semiconductor Equipment GmbH

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EBARA Ebara Corporation is a publicly traded manufacturing company based in Tokyo, Japan which makes environmental and industrial machinery such as pumps and turbines. It is the owner of the Elliott Company in the United States and Sumoto S.r.l. in I ...

Precision Machinery Europe GmbH *edacentrum e.V. *EDC Electronic Design Chemnitz GmbH *Edwards GmbH * ELMOS Semiconductor AG *EMEC-Prototyping UG *

Entegris Entegris, Inc. is an American provider of products and systems that purify, protect, and transport critical materials used in the semiconductor device fabrication process. Entegris operates out of its headquarters in Billerica, Massachusetts. T ...

GmbH *ERGO Umweltinstitut GmbH *esb Rechtsanwälte *etna GmbH; NL Sachsen *Eurogrant GmbH *Europäische Forschungsgesellschaft Dünne Schichten e.V.

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*FAA Bildungsgesellschaft mbH, Südost *Fab Owners Association *Fachhochschule Lausitz *FAP GmbH Dresden *FCT Ingenieurkeramik GmbH *FHR Anlagenbau GmbH * Finetech GmbH & Co. KG *Fraunhofer COMEDD *Fraunhofer Technologiezentrum Halbleitermaterialien (THM) * Fraunhofer-Institut für Elektronenstrahl- und Plasmatechnik (FEP) *Fraunhofer-Institut für Elektronische Nanosysteme (ENAS) * Fraunhofer-Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen IIS * Fraunhofer-Institut für Keramische Technologien und Systeme (IKTS) * Fraunhofer-Institut für Photonische Mikrosysteme (IPMS) * Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung (IPA) * Fraunhofer-Institut für Werkstoff und Strahltechnik (IWS) * Fraunhofer-Institut für Zerstörungsfreie Prüfverfahren (IZFP) * Fraunhofer-Institut für Zuverlässigkeit und Mikrointegration (IZM) *Freiberg Instruments GmbH *

Freiberger The Freiberger, also known as Franches-Montagnes, is a horse breed from Switzerland, from the Jura region, described as either a "heavy warmblood" or a "light coldblood". It was widely used as draft and pack horse in the Swiss army. It has ...

Compound Materials GmbH *

Silicium- und Targetbearbeitung GmbH *FRT, Fries Research & Technology GmbH *

Fujifilm , trading as Fujifilm, or simply Fuji, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, operating in the realms of photography, optics, office and medical electronics, biotechnology, and chemicals. The offerings from t ...

Electronic Materials (Europe) GmbH *Fäth GmbH

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*Gesellschaft zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft - GFWW - e.V. *Global Business Travel GmbH *

GLOBALFOUNDRIES GlobalFoundries Inc. (GF or GloFo) is a multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company incorporated in the Cayman Islands and headquartered in Malta, New York. Created by the divestiture of the manufacturing arm of AMD, t ...

Dresden *Going International *Greentech Germany Innovative *Grundbesitz Hellerau GmbH *GWT-TUD GmbH

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*Hager + Elsässer S-Tec GmbH *HAP GmbH Dresden *HEIMANN Sensor GmbH * Heliatek GmbH *Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e. V. *high tech trade gmbh *HighQ-Factory GmbH *HighTech Startbahn (UG) *Hilbert, Dirk *

Hilton Hotel Hilton Hotels & Resorts (formerly known as Hilton Hotels) is a global brand of full-service hotels and resorts and the flagship brand of American multinational hospitality company Hilton. The original company was founded by Conrad Hilton. As ...

Dresden * Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden (FH) *

Horiba is a Japanese manufacturer of precision instruments for measurement and analysis. They make instruments that measure and analyze automobile exhaust gas (80% share of the world market), and environmental, medical and scientific applications. Ho ...

Europe GmbH *HPS Handels GmbH *HSEB Dresden GmbH

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*I. K. Hofmann GmbH *i.S.X. Software GmbH & Co. KG *IBH IT-Service GmbH *

Infineon Infineon Technologies AG is a German semiconductor manufacturer founded in 1999, when the semiconductor operations of the former parent company Siemens AG were spun off. Infineon has about 50,280 employees and is one of the ten largest semicon ...

Technologies Dresden GmbH *Infobroking Schwanecke Dresden *InnoLas Semiconductor GmbH *INNSIDE BY MELIA Dresden *InQu Informatics GmbH *Institut für Mikroelektronik- und Mechatronik-Systeme GmbH *

Intel Mobile Communications Intel Mobile Communications (IMC), is the mobile research and development division of Intel. It was formed when Intel completed the acquisition of the Wireless Solutions (WLS) division of Infineon early in 2011 for US$1.4 billion. The Infineon sub ...

Technology Dresden GmbH *Intelligente Sensorsysteme Dresden GmbH *interface systems gmbh *ION BEAM S.n.c *IP GEN Rechte GmbH *IQ Inspection & Qualification GmbH *itemic AG

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*Junghans, Prof. Dr. Bernd

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*Kamp, Hendrik *Kessler, Gerhard *Kinetics Germany GmbH *KLA-Tencor GmbH *KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft

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*Landeshauptstadt Dresden *Landgraf-Dietz, Prof. Dieter *Leybold Optics Dresden GmbH *Linde Electronics GmbH & Co. KG *Lippert, Stachow & Partner

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*M+W Integrated Solutions GmbH *Maicom Quarz GmbH *MAZeT GmbH *MCRT GmbH *me2c - icroelectronic cluster *Melexis Dresden GmbH *memsfab GmbH *

Mentor Graphics Siemens EDA is a US-based electronic design automation (EDA) multinational corporation for electrical engineering and electronics, headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon. Founded in 1981 as Mentor Graphics, the company was acquired by Siemens i ...

(Deutschland) GmbH *Mercateo AG *Mercuri Urval GmbH *MH Wassertechnologie GmbH *MICA - Management in Crisis Agency *MicroSystems GmbH *Minitron elektronik gmbh *MLP Finanzdienstleistungen AG *MPD Microelectronic Packaging Dresden GmbH *MSG Lithoglas GmbH *MunEDA GmbH *

Murata Machinery , abbrev. MML, is a privately held Japanese international company founded in 1935 with its Head Office at Fushimi-ku, Kyoto The company's main products are industrial machines such as textile machinery, turning machines, sheet metal machinery ...

GmbH - Dresden Branch

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*NaMLab gGmbH *Nanium S.A. *newtron AG * Nikon Precision Europe GmbH *Novaled AG *

NXP Semiconductors NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NXP) is a Dutch semiconductor designer and manufacturer with headquarters in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The company employs approximately 31,000 people in more than 30 countries. NXP reported revenue of $11.06 billion in 2 ...

Germany GmbH

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* OC Oerlikon Corporation AG *OptoNet e. V. *Ortec Messe und Kongress GmbH * Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden *Overlack GmbH

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*Pac Tech GmbH * PALL GmbH *

Panalpina Panalpina, legally ''Panalpina Welttransport Holding AG'', was a Swiss logistics company. It merged with DSV in 2019 and became DSV Panalpina, with the Panalpina name being killed off in September 2021 by DSV through a brand re-alignment. Ove ...

Welttransport (Deutschland) GmbH *PEER Group GmbH * Pfeiffer Vacuum GmbH *Pfennig Reinigungstechnik GmbH * Photronics MZD GmbH *PICOBELLO Dr. Hielscher Computerservice *Plasmetrex GmbH * Plastic Logic GmbH — Dresden * PMD Technologies AG *PR-Piloten GmbH & Co. KG *Prischmann, Dr. Werner *Productivity Engineering Gesellschaft für Prozessintegration mbH *profi-con GmbH *ProTec Carrier Systems GmbH

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*qfmd GmbH *Qoniac GmbH

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*Rehak, Dr. Klaus *Rehak, Dr. Wolfgang *Reid Ashman Germany *ReinraumAkademie GmbH *RHe Microsystems GmbH *RoodMicrotec GmbH * Roth & Rau - Ortner GmbH * Roth & Rau AG * Rudolph Technologies Germany GmbH

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*S-I-P GmbH *Sachsen Bank *Sachsen-Kälte GmbH *SALT Solutions GmbH *SAW COMPONENTS Dresden GmbH *Saxonia Bildungsinstitut *Saxonia Systems AG * Schenker Deutschland AG *Schloss Wackerbarth *Schneider + Partner GmbH *Scholpp Montagetechnik GmbH *SeeReal Technologies GmbH *Semisol Analytik GmbH *Semisystech S.r.l. *SEMPA SYSTEMS GmbH *SENTECH Instruments GmbH *Serma GmbH *SGS INSTITUT FRESENIUS GmbH * Siemens AG *Signalion GmbH *Silicon Micro Sensors GmbH *SILTECTRA GmbH *

Siltronic Siltronic AG is a manufacturer of wafers made of hyperpure silicon, the basis for modern micro- and nanotechnology. The Munich-based company is one of the world's leading manufacturers of wafers for the semiconductor industry. History The compa ...

AG *SMARTRAC TECHNOLOGY Dresden GmbH * Solarwatt AG *Solayer GmbH *SolMateS B.V. *SPEA GmbH *SPTS Technologies GmbH *SQL Projekt AG *sstCONSULT *STB Sachsenwind technische Beratungsgesellschaft mbH * Steigenberger Hotel de Saxe *

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Analytische Instrumente GmbH *

Synopsys Synopsys is an American electronic design automation (EDA) company that focuses on silicon design and verification, silicon intellectual property and software security and quality. Products include tools for logic synthesis and physical design ...

GmbH *SYSTEMA GmbH

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T-Systems T-Systems International GmbH (T-Systems) is an internationally operating service provider for information technologies and digital transformation. The company is part of Deutsche Telekom AG and is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main. As of 2012, ...

Multimedia Solutions GmbH *T.I.P.S. Messtechnik GmbH *Tausch, Jürgen *TechnologieZentrumDresden GmbH *

Teradyne Teradyne, Inc. is an American automatic test equipment (ATE) designer and manufacturer based in North Reading, Massachusetts. Teradyne's high-profile customers include Samsung, Qualcomm, Intel, Analog Devices, Texas Instruments and IBM. Hist ...

GmbH * Tokyo Electron Europe Limited *Toppan Photomask Germany GmbH * TU Bergakademie Freiberg *

TU Dresden TU Dresden (for german: Technische Universität Dresden, abbreviated as TUD and often wrongly translated as "Dresden University of Technology") is a public research university, the largest institute of higher education in the city of Dresden, th ...

, IAVT *

, IHM *

, Institut für Angewandte Informatik *

, Institut für Angewandte Photophysik * TURCK duotec GmbH *tyclipso.net

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*UniTemp GmbH

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*VAT Deutschland GmbH *Viering, Jentschura & Partner *Vistec Electron Beam GmbH *Vocke, H. Unternehmensberatung *VON ARDENNE Anlagentechnik GmbH *von Selchow, Thilo *VOR Werbeagentur GmbH

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*WAKU Robotics GmbH *Watlow GmbH *WBS TRAINING AG *Weiss Klimatechnik GmbH *WESSLING GmbH * Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau - University of Applied Sciences Zwickau *Wirtschaftsförderung Sachsen GmbH *Woowon Technologies Ltd. *World Courier (Deutschland) GmbH

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X-Fab The X-FAB Silicon Foundries is a group of semiconductor foundries. The group specializes in the fabrication of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits for fabless semiconductor companies, as well as MEMS and solutions for high voltage appli ...

Semiconductor Foundries AG *XENON Automatisierungstechnik GmbH *xima media GmbH

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*Z&Z Werbeagentur *Zentrum für Mikrotechnologien (ZFM) * Zentrum Mikroelektronik Dresden AG *znt Zentren für Neue Technologien GmbH

References

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