CMOS Technology: Advanced & Beyond
Imec enables next-generation computing, storage and interconnects. Providing its partners with the disruptive breakthroughs they need to create their future products.
The high-performance compute market will continue to grow because of new application drivers. The 5G rollout will accelerate the already exponential growth of data. This will be combined with growing internet traffic and new data center applications such as supercomputing and high-performance computing-as-a-service. All increasing the demand for high-end CPUs and GPUs inside (cloud) servers. Meanwhile, inside our smartphones, mobile SoCs need to integrate more functionalities in a form-factor-constrained IC.
To achieve these goals, imec collaborates with the entire IC value chain. Constituting one of the world’s largest R&D hubs for next-generation semiconductor research. By building on advanced process steps and materials exploration, fundamental understanding and state-of-the-art fab infrastructure.