2025-11-23 10:00
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2025-11-23 10:00
Intel's withdrawal from the construction of a factory near Wrocław does not end Polish ambitions in the semiconductor sector, said Deputy Minister of Development Michał Jaros. In his opinion, the future of the industry may be based on cooperation with the Czech Republic, Germany and investors from Taiwan who are entering Poland more and more boldly.
At the end of July, Intel announced that it was abandoning the construction of factories in Germany and Poland. The Americans were to invest $4.6 billion near Wrocław, to build a semiconductor integration and testing plant there.. Deputy Minister of Development and Technology Michał Jaros emphasized that Intel also withdrew from its investment in Ohio in the US, which means that “there was no politics here, only hard calculation.”
– Would we be a semiconductor powerhouse after Intel's investment? We would certainly increase the possibilities of our economy, and the European economy in general, because Europe is deprived of semiconductor production – said Jaros.
He added that efforts are underway to create a semiconductor triangle between Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany. The factory of one of the Taiwanese companies is being built in Dresden, and companies from this country are also present in the Czech Republic. According to Jaros, “therefore this Wrocław-Prague-Dresden triangle is possible.”
– We have 50 thousand. software companies whose programmers can be used to work for the semiconductor industry. And so a second triangle could be built, based on the supply chain for semiconductor production, said Michał Jaros. – This would be a technological triangle in the area of ICT, i.e. communication, new communication technologies, between Wrocław, Katowice and Łódź – he added. As the deputy minister emphasized, no city will be excluded from the concept.
The involvement of Taiwanese companies will be crucial.
– I think that there will be more Taiwanese investments in Poland from month to month. Because Taiwan itself announced that Poland is one of the places intended for Taiwan's economic and technological expansion.. And Taiwan is not only about financial resources, but above all about technology. And we hope that this technology will strengthen the resilience of our economy to various types of shocks and geopolitical turmoil, he said. He assessed that the production of semiconductors is a “European raison d'état, not even only Polish.”
As Jaros emphasized, Taiwanese investments are already present in Poland. In this context, he mentioned a company that is completing the construction of a component factory for the automotive industry in Czeladź. He also mentioned energy storage facilities being built near Poznań. He emphasized that talks with companies from this country mainly concern energy, the use of AI and the construction of modern servers.
Interview by Michał Torz (PAP)
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