The City Council has given the license for the construction of the photonic chip factory or Sparc project (Semiconductor Foundry and Advanced Photonics Research Centre) located in the Technology Park of Vigo Zona Franca, from 2026. It will have an area of more than 4,000 square meters. This project, with an investment of 3.6 million euros, will be dedicated to the development and research of new technologies applied to the manufacture of photonic chips.

Photonic chips or photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are devices that integrate optical components using light (photons) instead of electrical signals (electrons) for information processing and transmission.

Applications are as follows:

_Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
In Sensors and Imaging such as medical diagnosis and security systems.

LiDAR systems. In autonomous vehicles. Telecommunications and Data Centers.
- Quantum Computing.

The plant will generate more than 60 direct jobs and some 500 indirect jobs. It plans to manufacture more than 1,500 wafers per year for 90,000 microchips. Providing training for new workers. Placing Galicia at the forefront of photonic chips.