The Chips for Europe Initiative supports technological capacity building and innovation in the Union. The initiative includes pilot lines on sub-10nm low-power transistor technologies, leading-edge node technologies below 2nm, heterogeneous system integration, advanced photonic integrated circuits, and wide band-gap materials. It also supports pilot lines for integrated photonic technologies and fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) technologies, with dedicated efforts on quantum chips. In addition, the Initiative establishes a large-scale design platform to facilitate research, development, test, experimentation and validation of new technologies, and a network of competence centres across Member States to provide training, expertise, and access to infrastructure for industry and academia. These new infrastructures will be open to EU players, large or small, industry or researchers, designers or SMEs, from various vertical sectors. Such users are central to the Initiative.