“We are excited that PSC has joined our research platform. Their growth in the memory business is impressive, and their know-how in memory scaling will be an important asset for our global research platform,” said Prof. Gilbert Declerck, President and CEO of IMEC. “PSC’s joining demonstrates our ambition to further expand our program with new leading partners, on the path to technologies below 32nm. It emphasizes the increasing strength of our memory partner network, which is unique in the world. It also illustrates our commitment to further enforce our business in Taiwan, at the time when we’re opening IMEC Taiwan in the Hsinchu Science Park.”

IMEC can now boast six major memory manufacturers as research partners, which include Micron, Qimonda, Samsung, Elpida and Hynix, and now PSC. Elpida and PSC are JV partners in DRAM start-up Rexchip.