Imec’s on-chip drug monitoring device raises €10M
Flemish life-sciences startup Axithra has raised 10 million euros in seed capital in an investment round led by Imec.xpand and Kurma partners.
Bedrijf: Imec
Imec’s thin-film pinned photodiode boosts IR-sensing
Imec has successfully integrated a pinned photodiode structure in thin-film image sensors with comparable noise performance to a standard silicon pinned photodiode pixel.
July’s news roundup: EU Chips Act, NXP’s Q2, China and more
While the editors were away on holiday, the European Chips Act was officially adopted, Quix Quantum appointed a CFO, solar foil startup Enfoil emerged in Flanders, NXP reported Q2 results, concerns were raised about China’s push into mature semiconductors and ASML hired 100 researchers from Philips.
Flanders and Europe to invest €1.5B in new Imec cleanroom
The Flemish government is committed to investing in a new cleanroom for Imec in Leuven.
Europractice starts offering wafer-sharing services for flexible ICs
Multi-project wafer service Europractice has added flexible integrated circuits to its offerings.
ASML and Imec team up for sub-2nm development
ASML will install a full suite of its most advanced tools in Imec’s cleanroom to support the development of sub-2nm process technology.
Stacked CMOS marks the end of the roadmap (for now)
Having been ‘horizontal’ neighbors since the advent of CMOS, nFETs and pFETs will eventually be stacked on top of each other.
Japan’s Rapidus joins Imec for 2nm development
Rapidus, the newly founded Japanese chip manufacturer, has joined Imec’s Core Partner Program for advanced CMOS development.
Imec’s new roadmap extends to the angstrom age
Imec has drawn up a roadmap that will take the semiconductor industry to the 2-angstrom (0.2nm) node in 2036.
Nanomesh electrode boosts hydrogen production
Research at Imec and KU Leuven has delivered a superefficient electrode structure for the electrolysis of water.
