Germany continues to set the pace in the race to deploy private 5G networks that increase efficiency and deliver new enterprise applications, especially in the manufacturing sector. In a week when regulator Bundesnetzagentur announced that 123 spectrum licences for private 5G campus networks had been awarded, a €1bn wafer fab built by Bosch for automotive chips was officially opened by German chancellor Angela Merkel. “The new Bosch wafer fab will boost our capacity in microelectronics. Microelectronics is the basis for nearly every promising technology, for applications of artificial intelligence, for quantum computing, and for automated and connected driving – which is also a Bosch specialty,” said Merkel. “The new wafer fab is the single largest investment in the company’s history.…