Is the ultimate goal of the EU Chips Act the implantation of chips in the human brain? No, that's not true: The EU Chips Act, which entered into force on September 21, 2023, aims to increase microchip production across the continent in response to rising demand and to reduce dependency on suppliers from outside Europe.
The claim appeared in a video (archived here) on TikTok, published by @katy.ojdanovski (archived here) on February 2, 2024, under the title, translated from Croatian to English by Lead Stories staff: "Chips Act - The European Commission plans to adopt the European Chips Law in 2022." It opened, also translated by Lead Stories staff:
The globalist's ultimate goal is to implant chips in the human brain.
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken on Tue Feb 6, 13:08:36 2024 UTC)
A video from The Davos Agenda (archived here), the World Economic Forum virtual event held in Geneva, from January 20, 2022, shows two speakers: WEF's founder and Executive Chairman, Professor Klaus Schwab (archived here), and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (archived here). Ursula von der Leyen announced a new European Chips Act in a Special Address at The Davos Agenda (archived here). In the video, Klaus Schwab said: "I would like to highlight what you said about the European Chips Act because it's an important step to create the physical brain for digitalization and to have it located to some extent in Europe."
As the full name of the Chips Act explains, it is a Regulation on establishing a framework of measures for strengthening Europe's semiconductor ecosystem in the EU (archived here). According to a Technical report published in 2022 by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) from the European Commission's science and knowledge service, almost 80 percent of suppliers to European firms operating in the semiconductor industry are headquartered outside the EU (the United States, followed by Taiwan, China, South Korea, and Japan). Since 2020, there has been a major shortage of semiconductors (archived here) across the globe, highlighting Europe's dependency on a limited number of suppliers outside of the EU, particularly Taiwan and southeast Asia, for chip manufacturing, and the United States for chip design. To respond to critical dependencies, the European Chips Act aims to strengthen manufacturing activities in the Union, stimulate the European design ecosystem, and support scale-up and innovation across the whole value chain (archived here). Through the European Chips Act, the European Union aims also to reach its target of expanding its global market share to 20 percent in 2030 (archived here).
Although Klaus Schwab mentioned the word "brain" in the Geneva video about the Chips Act, referring to the brainpower and knowledge needed for digitalization, that regulation has nothing to do with implanting chips in the human brain.
