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President Claudia Sheinbaum announces the creation of the National Center for Semiconductor Design "Kutsari"

• The Federal Law for the Protection of Industrial Property will be modified to accelerate the patent process for technological innovations and the commercialization of patents
• It is part of the Mexico Plan to make the country a scientific and technological power and it is projected that the first design centers will be in Puebla, Jalisco and Sonora
• By 2027 the design center will be consolidated in the production of semiconductors for the automotive industry, household appliances, medical equipment, among other devices

With the aim of making Mexico a scientific and technological power, the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, announced the creation of the National Center for Semiconductor Design "Kutsari", in which Mexican scientists from public higher education institutions will develop new designs for this type of device, which can be patented according to international standards that protect innovation, based on modifications to the Federal Law for the Protection of Industrial Property (LFPPI).

“The Kutsari Semiconductor Design Center or Kutsari Project: National Center for Semiconductor Design, is the result of the union of scientists and technology developers from public institutions of higher education, who will put all their intelligence and creativity to create new semiconductor designs,” she explained.

President Sheinbaum said that, with the changes to the Law, the process to register technological innovations will be easier and faster, and semiconductors can go from design to production lines for sale.

The headquarters of the “Kutsari” Semiconductor Design Center —which means “sand” in Purépecha— will be located in Puebla, Jalisco and Sonora, where the development of this type of technology is part of the Sonora Plan, and will be coordinated by the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE) and the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV), with the participation of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN).

“This is very good for the country. There is already a lot of research in Mexico. What we are doing now is gathering all these minds,” he said.

She stressed that the development of semiconductors is part of the Mexico Plan, which aims to produce more products in the country with the collaboration of the national private initiative and foreign investments.

"We want scientific and technological development in Mexico, and the production of innovations of all kinds in our country," she said.

The Secretary of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation, Rosaura Ruiz Gutiérrez, specified that the project will cover several aspects: proposing a legal and regulatory framework to strengthen the maturation and transfer of technology in the subject; promoting ecosystems that include the entire supply chain in Development Poles and encouraging technological production in semiconductor electronics.

The national coordinator of the Semiconductor Project and general director of Innova Bienestar de México, Edmundo Gutiérrez Domínguez, explained that the semiconductor industry has a supply chain of three links: the design, the manufacturing, and the testing, encapsulation, and assembly of the chips.

The Mexican scientific experience of over four decades will provide solutions for the local and global markets in the automotive, household appliance, and medical equipment industries, among other strategic sectors.

Together with the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation, work is being done so that a group of people, through a confidentiality clause, can examine 48 thousand patents that are pending analysis.

The President of Mexico was accompanied by the general director of Cinvestav, Alberto Sánchez Hernández; the general director of INAOE, David Sánchez de la Llave; the person in charge of the Design Center in Guadalajara, Ramón Parra Michel; the person in charge of the Design Center in Puebla, Alejandro Bautista Castillo; the general director of CIDESI, Carlos Rubio González; the director of the Institute of Physics of UNAM, Cecilia Noguez Garrido; the general director of CIMAV, Leticia Torres Guerra.

As well as the person in charge of the Semiconductor Laboratory at INAOE, Alfonso Torres Jácome; the secretary of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation of Puebla, Celina Peña Guzmán; Patricia Guzmán Velázquez; Secretary of Economic Development of Jalisco, Cindy Blanco Ochoa; Senior Designer of INAOE, Miguel Rocha Pérez; and of the National Laboratory of Ultracold Matter and Quantum Information, Rocío Jáuregui.