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IMEC sees sub-32nm partners boost researchers & revenues in 2006 |
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Apr 27, 2007 at 03:33 PM |
 According to IMEC, it was a busy year for the R&D facility in 2006 in which it saw a 6.2 percent increase in the number of co-workers on programs, rising to 1,489 compared to 2005's figure. 22 percent are guest researchers and residents from the academic and industrial world, IMEC said.
"Continuous interaction with the industry gives IMEC a clear view on the pre-competitive research the changing semiconductor industry needs. IMEC has taken these changes as new opportunities;" said Gilbert Declerck (pictured), President and CEO of IMEC. "We increased the focus on memory technology, so that now both logic and memory (flash and DRAM) are investigated in our (sub-)32nm core program. With an increasing number of IDMs moving to a fablite model, we also extended our programs to answer the needs of all semiconductor players from IDMs, foundries to fablite companies. In 2006, we have prepared an important reorganization to maximize our multi-disciplinary research and in this way answering the increased demand for extra functionality in systems and chips. We also expect a lot from the bio-nano convergence where we explore an active collaboration with institutes that have expertise in the fields of medicine and molecular biology to complement our own expertise in micro- and nanoelectronics engineering. Furthermore, Apollo, the successor of our multi-mode multimedia (M4) program has been defined together with important industrial players."
Revenues reached €227 million, of which €35.5 million Euro consists of the research grant from the Flanders Government. IMEC attributed this increase to the growing number of partners joining programs for sub-32nm research for both memory and logic devices in 2006.
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