The more than $50 billion in subsidies now on offer to chip manufacturers from the U.S. government and 43 billion euros ($47 billion) in Europe "is big money from the government perspective (but) is little money from industry perspective, which means we have to spend this in a very dedicated and very forceful way in order to get the best out of it," Kurt Sievers said, speaking at the Bloomberg New Economy conference.

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(Reporting by Conor Humphries, Toby Sterling, Editing by Louise Heavens)