PIC/CS/PE International Conference 2026
April 20 - 22, 2026 | Brussels, Belgium
Connecting the photonic integrated circuits, compound semiconductor & power electronics community
Imec
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Imec is present with a booth on our Silicon photonics offering.
New Materials for Enabling High-performance Photonic Devices and Emerging Applications
by Leili Shiramin, Portfolio Manager, on April 21st
To meet AI-driven performance requirements, or to enable emerging application domains, it is necessary to integrate silicon photonics and silicon nitride photonics platforms with new materials. We will discuss these materials—including lithium niobate, III–V, GeSi, BTO, and polymers—alongside the devices they enable and their associated challenges, particularly in the context of gain elements such as lasers and semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs), as well as modulators.
Silicon Photonics Platform for Next-Generation Co-Packaged Optics and Optical I/O
by Yoojin Ban, Technology Director, on April 21st
This presentation reviews recent performance achievements in high-speed, energy efficient electro optical modulators and photodetectors for next generation co packaged optics operating at 400G/lane and future optical I/O with wide and slow parallel interfaces, addressing the bandwidth, energy efficiency, and integration density requirements of AI scale up and scale out architectures.
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Advancing GaN Power Technologies: scaling to 300mm for the AI Era
by Pierre Gassot, Business Line Director, on April 21st
Over the past decade, imec has been supporting the power semiconductor industry with the enablement of GaN technologies offering a comprehensive industrial affiliation program to mutualize R&D efforts and licensing the intellectual property generated within and outside its partner consortium. These efforts spent on 200mm from the start resulted in the availability of 200V/650V and 40V/100V p-GaN HEMT technology platforms soon complemented with their monolithic integration derivatives based on Resistor Transistor Logic and built on Silicon or SOI with Deep Trench Isolation allowing GaN Power Integrated Circuits to be designed.
The ongoing Artificial Intelligence revolution is reshaping data centers and compute system architectures. New power semiconductor technologies are needed to manage the increased power fueling this new era.
In this context, imec is expanding its portfolio of GaN power technologies towards lower and higher voltage ratings to address the overall power conversion chain as well as moving to 300mm to aggressively scale device dimensions and to benefit from the most advanced processing tool capabilities.
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Introducing imec.kelis: A Datacenter Performance Model for AI Densification
by Wenzhe Guo, Senior R&D Engineer, Computer System Architecture Department, on April 22nd
AI-driven datacentre densification depends on understanding where the next bottleneck will arise—compute, memory, or network. As large‑scale large language models (LLMs) continue to proliferate, their enormous compute and bandwidth demands make system‑level design increasingly complex. Achieving high efficiency requires coordinated, cross‑stack co‑optimization spanning hardware technology, interconnects, model architecture, and distributed parallelism. Yet exploring this space experimentally is prohibitively time‑ and energy‑intensive. Imec.kelis is a virtual datacenter modeling tool that converts full LLM workloads into fast, explainable predictions across GPU architectures, node configurations, and cluster scales. Within minutes, it reveals performance limits, communication hotspots, and scaling behavior, enabling architects to test “what-if” scenarios before deployment. Kelis supports both datacenter-level and processor-level exploration, helping teams identify bottlenecks and maximize throughput within fixed power, thermal, and space constraints.
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