The digital world expansion is having a significant impact on our environment, with forecasts estimating that it could absorb more than 20% of the world's electricity consumption. A paradigm shift is therefore becoming a priority to make the energy efficiency of future electronic devices a major performance criterion on a par with computing power, speed, miniaturisation and cost.

PEPR SPIN main missions are to :

• ​Support innovative fundamental research in spintronics, 
• maintain the leadership of the French community in Europe and internationally, 
• strengthen or create bridges with other communities and with national industrial players, to make spintronics a long-term part of the national electronics strategy in the fields of information and communication, artificial intelligence, security a​nd health.

Five projects were launched at the end of 2023:

CHIREX: beyond CMOS with chiral textures
• ​TOAST: towards spin-based THz technology
• ​SWING: spin waves for advanced signal processing
• ​SPINCOM: radio-frequency spintronics for intelligent communication solutions
• ​ADAGE: next-generation magnetic detection.

​​PEPR SPIN will help to strengthen three cross-disciplinary projects: SPINMAT Advanced materials for spintronics; SPINCHARAC Advanced characterisation equipment; and SPINTHEORY Multiscale theory and modelling.
"Thanks to PEPR SPIN, the strong momentum of spintronics will open up entirely new prospects in the fields of computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), telecommunications, reprogrammable logic and AI components; these are all areas where there are major issues of sovereignty in information technology, security, energy and health, as well as in the defence, nuclear and aerospace markets" said the programme directors, Lucian Prejbeanu from CEA-IRIG and Vincent Cros from CNRS PHYSIQUE.​