The UK has strength in markets for electronic based systems. Heterogeneous Integration (“HI”) is a disruptive technology driving change in the semiconductor industry already recognised by global Tier 1 companies for AI compute in data centres and consumer electronics. The Centres aim is to enable UK industry to transition electronic-based systems to adopt HI to remain competitive in global markets.

Heterogeneous Integration is about new advanced methods to bring together different semiconductor parts to form a complete system. This centre aims to mimic the unique attributes of HI by bringing together the research and development, systems design engineering, manufacturing and associated activity in semiconductor and electronic systems from across the UK to help the UK adopt the latest advances.

The Centre will be funded as part of the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy launched on 23rd June 2025. It was announced  as part of the Digital and Technologies Sector Plan that £25 million would be provided to establish two additional Innovation and Knowledge Centres (IKCs) in Neuromorphic Computing Hardware and Heterogeneous Integration System Design. These will join with the other two IKCs funded under the National Semiconductor Strategy in Silicon Photonics and Power Semiconductors.