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Shaping a sustainable $1 trillion era: conversations from SEMICON Europa 2023

Imec’s President and CEO, Luc Van den hove, talks about bringing together the entire ecosystem to address global challenges, like climate change, collectively.

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Keynote Conversations From SEMICON Europa 2023 On Shaping a Sustainable $1Trillion Era

Public access to virtual fab for quantifying environmental impact of IC manufacturing

Jade Liu

Beyond the ICT industry, imec aims to guide academics and policymakers with actionable data

Imec grants public access to virtual fab for quantifying environmental impact of IC manufacturing

On October 10 and 11, 2023, the automotive ecosystem convened at imec to talk about what’s now routinely called ‘the chiplet challenge.’ Here are four takeaways from those two days.

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4 takeaways from the 2nd automotive chiplet conference

Nadine Collaert

“To all the talented female researchers out there: make your voices heard loud and clear. Your ideas and insights matter.”

Testimonial

<ul>
	<li>Joined imec in 1995</li>
	<li>Obtained a PhD in electrical and electronics engineering in 2000</li>
	<li>Started as senior researcher advanced logic devices in 2001</li>
	<li>Became program manager logic in 2012</li>
	<li>Earned title of distinguished member of technical staff in 2016</li>
	<li>Assumed function of program director advanced RF in 2018</li>
	<li>Promoted to imec fellow in 2023</li>
</ul>

Meet imec fellow Nadine Collaert

Stefaan Decoutere

“Don’t only work out a topic in depth – develop a broad skillset that helps to put your work in a broader context”

<ul>
	<li>Obtained a PhD at KU Leuven in 1992</li>
	<li>Joined imec in 1987</li>
	<li>Became head of the Mixed Signal/RF technology group in 1998</li>
	<li>Appointed as manager of GaN power device technology in 2010</li>
	<li>In 2015, was promoted to director of GaN technology program</li>
	<li>Named imec fellow in 2023</li>
</ul>

Meet imec fellow Stefaan Decoutere

Yao-Hong Liu

Carolina Mora Lopez

Recent advances in implant miniaturization, wireless high-rate data transfer, and data compression

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Imec has designed a new miniature chip for large-scale recordings that is 16 times smaller than the state of the art.

A new UWB transmitter supporting data rates up to 1,66 Gb/s can transmit the gigabytes of data from such implants.

Using the body as a transmitter, imec also demonstrates a telemetry system that enables free-floating implants.

A novel approach to data sampling and processing inspired by retinas compresses the recorded neural data 125 times.

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Fast forward to a new generation of miniature, wireless, high-density brain implants

Subhali Subhechha

Attilio Belmonte

Gouri Sankar Kar

First experimental demonstration of multilevel, multiply accumulate operations on IGZO-based 2-transistor-1-capacitor (2T1C) and 2T0C cells &nbsp;

IGZO-based DRAM for energy- and area-efficient analog in-memory computing 

Podcast: Europe’s role in a sustainable semiconductor industry

Imec’s Katrien Marent and SEMI Europe’s Laith Altimime Talk about Europe’s Role in Achieving a Sustainable $Trillion Semiconductor Industry

Exploring disruptive health-tech ideas with Johnson & Johnson Innovation

Imec explores disruptive ideas in health tech in collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Innovation

Luc Van den hove

Vision

Why our chip strategy will determine our future 

Rohith Acharya

Anton Potočnik

Asser Elsayed

Ruoyu Li

Kristiaan De Greve

Cryo-CMOS electronics interfacing with superconducting qubits; a fab-compatible process targeting key elements for Si spin qubit upscaling

Research update

Both Si spin qubit and superconducting qubit based platforms are viable candidates for quantum technology upscaling, which drives the migration of research efforts from lab- to fab-based environments.

Common challenges include compatibility with large-scale industrial manufacturing techniques and electronics development for reading and controlling the growing number of qubits.

Imec reports progress for each platform: cryo-electronics for interfacing with superconducting qubits and a 300mm CMOS platform targeting Si spin qubit upscaling key elements.

Progress in upscaling Si spin and superconducting based quantum technologies

Bart Placklé

How a tiny building block could help reshape an entire ecosystem

Is the Automotive Industry Ready to Confront Its Greatest Challenge Yet?

Imec’s new SiGe BiCMOS optical receiver allows to process ever-increasing amounts of datacenter traffic

Stories

Shaping a sustainable $1 trillion era: conversations from SEMICON Europa 2023

Public access to virtual fab for quantifying environmental impact of IC manufacturing

4 takeaways from the 2nd automotive chiplet conference

Meet imec fellow Nadine Collaert

Meet imec fellow Stefaan Decoutere

Fast forward to a new generation of miniature, wireless, high-density brain implants

IGZO-based DRAM for energy- and area-efficient analog in-memory computing

Podcast: Europe’s role in a sustainable semiconductor industry

Exploring disruptive health-tech ideas with Johnson & Johnson Innovation

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