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October 22, 2025
Just months after unveiling plans for a new automotive chiplet innovation hub in Baden-Württemberg (Germany), imec has inaugurated its office at the IPAI campus in Heilbronn.

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October 09, 2025
Imec has launched a new 300mm gallium nitride (GaN) program aimed at advancing power electronics technology and reducing manufacturing costs.

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September 30, 2025
The Board of Directors of imec 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 Chair of imec’s Board of Directors.

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September 29, 2025
The STARLight project brings together a consortium of leading industrial and academic partners with the aim of establishing a high-volume manufacturing line, developing leading-edge optical modules, and fostering a complete value chain.

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July 22, 2025
German photonic deep tech scale-up Q.ANT has brought to maturity the world’s first commercial photonic processor for real-world AI and HPC workloads — executing complex AI operations much faster while saving significant amounts of energy.

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May 30, 2025
Over the past few months, Dirk Stans, Managing Partner at Eurocircuits, has been a vocal advocate for strengthening Europe’s electronics industry. In a series of articles, published by Evertiq, he has addressed critical structural challenges – and proposed pragmatic, actionable reforms. At Evertiq Expo Berlin on June 5, he will bring these ideas together in a comprehensive presentation.

Founders

May 08, 2025
eyeo, a new imec spin-off, has raised EUR 15 million in seed funding, co-led by imec.xpand, Invest-NL, joined by QBIC fund, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and Brabant Development Agency (BOM). The spin-off aims to revolutionise the imaging market for consumer, industrial, XR and security applications by drastically increasing the light sensitivity of image sensors.

Claus-MMO

April 16, 2025
The well-known four-year ebb and flow of the semiconductor industry is over. Political decisions and ambitions challenge the economic logic of supply and demand. Subsidies, embargoes and the AI revolution are now dictating the investment decisions while China plays the long game.

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April 09, 2025
In his previous guest article, Dirk Stans, Managing Partner at Eurocircuits, outlined three key actions needed to strengthen Europe’s electronics industry. Now, in this follow-up, he delves deeper into the second priority: the creation of an EU electronics raw materials database.

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March 25, 2025
Participants whose requests are selected will have access to FAMES technologies as they become available. Open-Access Calls will take place each spring through 2028.

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March 11, 2025
ASML and imec have entered into a new five-year strategic partnership aimed at advancing semiconductor research and sustainability in Europe. The agreement will leverage both companies' expertise to drive technological innovation and sustainable initiatives in the semiconductor industry.

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February 19, 2025
The European semiconductor industry is receiving a boost through the APECS pilot line project, which has been awarded funding under the EU Chips Act. This initiative focuses on developing and providing new packaging and integration solutions for the industry.

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January 15, 2025
Vertical Compute, founded by CEO Sylvain Dubois (ex-Google) and CTO Sebastien Couet (ex-imec), has closed a seed investment round of EUR 20 million.

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January 10, 2025
Belgium-based research institute Imec has achieved a significant milestone in semiconductor technology by fabricating electrically pumped GaAs-based nano-ridge lasers on 300 mm silicon wafers. This breakthrough, announced in a recent press release, represents a crucial step towards integrating photonic and electronic components on a single chip, paving the way for next-generation silicon photonics.

FAMES

July 01, 2024
France's CEA-Leti lab has officially launched its FAMES Pilot Line to support higher-performance, more energy-efficient and more sustainable chip designs across Europe.

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June 04, 2024
Imec and ASML are teaming up with the opening of the High NA EUV Lithography Lab in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, a lab jointly run by both companies.

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May 23, 2024
European Commission officials believe the EU Chips Act can attract huge inwards investment and propel the continent's semiconductor space to global prominence by 2030.

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May 03, 2024
imec.xpand has launched of a new fund "aimed at accelerating the growth of transformative semiconductor and nanotechnology innovations."

TFT

April 29, 2024
New research by KU Leuven and imec concludes that the foundry production model can be applied to the field of flexible thin-film electronics.

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March 14, 2024
imec is teaming up with the Spanish government and the region of Andalusia, to establish a new 300mm R&D process line for specialised chip technologies.

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March 01, 2024
Dutch lithography firm ASML has confirmed that its next-gen high-numerical aperture extreme ultraviolet tool is functional.

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March 01, 2024
The European Union has issued a call for proposals to its PREVAIL consortium, which was set up to accelerate the development of next-generation, edge-AI technologies across the continent.

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February 02, 2024
Belgium's Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC) is to open a new research centre in Malaga Spain with the creation of 450 jobs.

January 10, 2024
Intel plans to drive the company’s AI everywhere strategy into the automotive market, including a deal to acquire Silicon Mobility, a fabless silicon and software company that specialises in SoCs for intelligent electric vehicle (EV) energy management.

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December 05, 2023
By 2035, Imec is planning to have hired 1,950 new employees at its research centre in Leuven, Flemish Brabant. That is if the current growth trends persist.

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November 17, 2023
Japanese chipmaker Rapidus Corp has formed a partership with Canada's AI specialist Tenstorrent to mass produce semiconductors for artificial intelligence applications.

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September 28, 2023
ASML is reportedly planning to launch a base in Hokkaido, Japan, to support the production at Rapidus future semiconductor fab.

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September 04, 2023
Japanese semiconductor company Rapidus Corporation has officially broken ground on its future IIM-1 plant in Chitose City in Hokkaido, Japan.

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July 10, 2023
The EU has teamed up with the Flemish regional government to make a major investment in local firm Imec. The company says it will use the funds to expand its clean room test facility.

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June 29, 2023
Imec and ASML intend to intensify their collaboration in the next phase of developing a state-of-the-art high-numerical aperture (High-NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography pilot line at imec.

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May 18, 2023
KLA Corporation and imec intend to establish the Semiconductor Talent and Automotive Research (STAR) initiative, focusing on developing the talent base and infrastructure necessary to accelerate advanced semiconductor applications for electrification and autonomous mobility.

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April 26, 2023
Rapidus Corporation says that it will start preparing for the construction of a plant for the development and manufacturing of state-of-the-art semiconductors in Chitose City in Hokkaido.

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