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The cleanroom at Imec forms the basis for NanoIC's PDKs, which are based on 2-nm process flows.
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Major update of NanoIC’s Pathfinding N2 P-PDK empowers researchers and designers to learn and innovate on full SoC architectures.

NanoIC adds advanced SRAM memory macros to its N2 pathfinding PDK

This week, at SEMICON Europe, the NanoIC pilot line, a European initiative coordinated by imec and dedicated to accelerating innovation in chip technologies beyond 2nm, announces the release of the N2 P-PDK v1.0, an important update of its N2 Pathfinding Process Design Kit (P-PDK). This new version…
Links: current CEO, Luc Van den hove, Right: imec CEO as of April 1, 2026, Patrick Vandenameele. CEO of imec starting April 1, 2026, Patrick Vandenameele.
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Imec Ensures Seamless Succession and Strategic Continuity

Leadership Transition at imec: Luc Van den hove Becomes Chairman, Patrick Vandenameele Appointed as Next CEO of imec

The Board of Directors of imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, has appointed Patrick Vandenameele as the next Chief Executive Officer. Effective April 1, 2026, he will succeed current CEO Luc Van den hove, who will then assume the role of Cha…
Representatives of the twelve consortium members gathered at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory in Braga, Portugal.
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Consortium to facilitate access to design infrastructure, training, and capital for European fabless semiconductor startups, small and medium enterprises and research organizations.

Imec coordinates EU Chips Design Platform

A consortium of 12 European partners, coordinated by imec, has been selected in the framework of the European Chips Act to develop the EU Chips Design Platform. Funded by Chips JU, the platform will facilitate access to advanced semiconductor design infrastructure, training, and capital for fabless…
Luc Van de Hofe and Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut
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New partnership enables an innovative network together with academia and industry partners to strengthen digital sovereignty in Europe

Baden-Württemberg attracts imec to lead development of chiplet-based technology for automotive applications

Imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, and the State Government of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, today announced, at the Hannover Trade Fair, the launch of the Advanced Chip Design Accelerator (ACDA). The new imec competence center in Baden-Württ…
Figure 1 – Top-down SEM images of meanders (left) and forks (right) with a 20 nm pitch after pattern transfer into a TiN hard mask. Figure 2 – TEM image of metallized wires with a 20 nm pitch after a chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) process.
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First electrical tests at 20nm pitch present a next milestone in validating the High NA extreme ultraviolet (EUV) patterning ecosystem

Imec demonstrates electrical yield for 20nm pitch metal lines obtained with High NA EUV single patterning

This week at SPIE Advanced Lithography + Patterning, imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, presents the first electrical test (e-test) results obtained on 20nm pitch metal line structures patterned after single-exposure High NA EUV lithography…
A 300 mm silicon wafer containing thousands of GaAs devices with a close-up of multiple dies and a scanning electron micrograph of a GaAs nano-ridge array after epitaxy. A 300 mm silicon wafer containing thousands of GaAs devices with a close-up of multiple dies and a scanning electron micrograph of a GaAs nano-ridge array after epitaxy.
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Imec achieves breakthrough in silicon photonics, paving the way for cost-effective and high-performance optical devices.

First full wafer-scale fabrication of electrically-pumped GaAs-based nano-ridge lasers on 300 mm silicon wafers

Imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, has announced a significant milestone in silicon photonics with the successful demonstration of electrically-driven GaAs-based multi-quantum-well nano-ridge laser diodes fully, monolithically fabricated on…
Figure 1 – Conceptual representation of (a) a single-row CFET and (b) a double-row CFET. The layout of a flip-flop (D-type flip-flop or DFF) shows a reduction of the cell height and area by 24 nm (or 12.5%) when transitioning from a single-row to a double-row CFET (H. Kuekner et al., IEDM 2024). Figure 2 – Virtual process flow for building a double-row CFET architecture. The process flow, simulated with 3D Coventor, started from the specifications of a ‘virtual’ CFET fab, projecting future processing capabilities and design margins (H. Kuekner et al., IEDM 2024). The zoom-in represents a TEM of a monolithic CFET technology demonstrator fabricated within imec’s 300mm R&D cleanroom facility (A. Vandooren et al., IEDM 2024).
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New standard cell architecture offers the most optimal trade-off between area efficiency and process complexity for logic and SRAM

Imec proposes double-row CFET for the A7 technology node

At the 2024 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, presents a new CFET-based standard cell architecture containing two rows of CFETs with a shared signal routing wall in between. The main bene…
Si spin qubits, manufactured with state-of-the-art 300mm integration processes.
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The results highlight the maturity of 300mm fab-based qubit processes ultimately enabling large-scale quantum computers.

Imec achieves record-low charge noise for Si MOS quantum dots fabricated on a 300mm CMOS platform

Imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, today announced the demonstration of high quality 300mm-Si-based quantum dot spin qubit processing with devices resulting in a statistically relevant, average charge noise of 0.6µeV/√Hz at 1Hz. In view of…
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