Juan Carlos López, one of the eleven wise men of the Spanish PERTE CHIP

Last July, Juan Carlos López, professor of Information Technologies and Systems at the UCLM, and professor at the Higher School of Informatics, was named as one of the eleven wise men called to constitute the committee of experts for the development of the PERTE Spanish Chip with clear objective: breaking technological dependence on third countries, in an international context that has forced us to take measures to avoid becoming stagnant again.

How do you explain what PERTE is to someone who knows absolutely nothing about it?

[JCL] “On a technological level, the pandemic was a critical moment, suddenly Europe and the US realized that they were technologically dependent above all on Asia, because the chip factories were mainly in Taiwan, Korea, China and some in the United States , where a certain level of manufacturing is maintained, but very little.”

Read the full interview in El Diario Lanza

* The cover photo is an original work by Elena Rosa, from Diario Lanza.