Editing STMicroelectronics (section)

=== Catania, Italy ===
The [[Catania]] plant in [[Sicily]] employs 5,000 staff and hosts several [[Research and development|R&D centers]] and divisions, focusing on [[flash memory]] technologies as well as two [[Semiconductor fabrication plant|fabs]]. The plant was launched in 1961 by ATES to supply under licensing to [[RCA]] of the US and initially using [[germanium]]. The site's two major wafer fabs are a {{convert|200|mm|in|abbr=on|0}} fab, opened in April 1997 by then-Italian Prime Minister [[Romano Prodi]], and a {{convert|300|mm|in|abbr=on|0}} fab that has never been completed and which was transferred in its current state to "Numonyx" in 2008. A new manufacturing facility for silicon carbide ([[Silicon carbide|SiC]]) substrates of 150&nbsp;mm should open here in 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Emilio |first=Maurizio Di Paolo |date=2022-10-05 |title=SiC Substrate Manufacturing Facility |url=https://www.powerelectronicsnews.com/silicon-carbide-substrate-manufacturing-facility-in-italy/ |access-date=2022-10-06 |website=Power Electronics News |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-10-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005140015/https://www.powerelectronicsnews.com/silicon-carbide-substrate-manufacturing-facility-in-italy/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In October 2022, the EU supported STMicroelectronics for the construction of a silicon carbide wafer plant in Catania with €293 million through the Recovery and Resilience Facility to be completed in 2026, and in line with the [[European Chips Act]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=EU Press corner |date=2022-10-05 |title=State aid: Commission approves €292.5 million Italian measure under Recovery and Resilience Facility to support STMicroelectronics in construction of a plant in the semiconductor value chain |url=https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en |access-date=2023-03-28 |website=European Commission - European Commission |language=en |archive-date=2020-08-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200825095835/https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en |url-status=live }}</ref>