Musical chairs in the Catalan technology sector. The former CEO of Cellnex – the main telecommunications tower company –, Tobías Martínez, will move to lead Openchip, while Pedro Mier will take over the direction of Open Cosmos. Furthermore, the president of Indra, Àngel Simón, continues with the revolution at the company's top and is already looking for a new CEO, who will possibly be announced this Tuesday, after dismissing José Vicente de los Mozos – seemingly in agreement with the Spanish government –, who is the main shareholder of the technology and defense company.

The story of Openchip, which on Thursday night received the Ignasi Pujol award from the newspaper ARA, dedicated to highlighting a business initiative, began during the Covid pandemic, a time when a new dictionary filled with words like chipsandsemiconductorsThe shortage of microelectronic components, such as these chips, suddenly became a global and local problem. Society then learned that these components were essential to keeping the economy going, and alarm bells started ringing.

The time of the covid was also the time in which a new dictionary filled with words like was forged in the popular imagination pandemic, coronavirus, masks and even, chips and semiconductorsThe shortage of microelectronic components, such as these chips, suddenly became a global and local problem. Society then learned that these components were essential to keep the economy moving forward, and alarm bells started ringing. This is where the story of Openchip, commonly known as the Catalan Nvidia (and European), although its managers don't quite like this definition.