Imec is the world's leading independent nanoelectronics R&D hub. The combination of our talent, infrastructure, and partner network enables breakthroughs towards microchips that are smaller, faster, more affordable, and more sustainable. We combine that nanotech expertise with data and AI to create and support applications for a smarter, better future.
Expertise
With firm roots in nanoelectronics, our portfolio covers a range of hardware and software technologies.
Research
In our 12,000 m² cleanrooms and state-of-the-art labs, we’re taking nano- and digital technology to the next level.
Manufacturing
Go from idea to scalable and reliable semiconductor manufacturing with IC-Link.
NanoIC pilot line
A pivotal initiative of the EU Chips Act to reinforce Europe’s leadership in semiconductor innovation.
Venturing & start-ups
Our venturing ecosystem supports tech entrepreneurs by providing them with funds and knowhow.
Applications
Get inspired by an overview of the ways in which imec’s technologies can transform your industry.
Sustainability
Take a look at how the goal of a sustainable future guides our research and our internal organization.
Press releases
10 November 2026
Baseline flows of NanoIC’s silicon interposer platform mark key step towards open-access PDKs, helping organizations better explore and prepare for next-generation chiplet-based systems
Longread
Discover how integrated photonics and wavefront shaping could enable more precise imaging deep inside biological tissue.
Longread
Scaling AI demands a new interconnect roadmap, moving from electrical to optical interconnects, and bringing the optics ever closer to the silicon.
The next compute multiplier will come from ecosystems, not isolated breakthroughs.
Technology review
Imec harnesses AI and accelerated computing (AC) to advance the sub-nm scaling era with NVIDIA.
Interview
How a single research center in Eindhoven grew into a nationwide chip innovation ecosystem, and what two decades of experience reveal about where it goes next.
Discover the story in Dutch
Press releases
8 October 2026
New cell analysis platform helps developers understand how treatments perform, enabling earlier decisions and a more efficient path from research to manufacturing and patients.
Research update
Towards scalable sCFET standard cell architectures: split-gate devices, a 5T+1 CFET SRAM bit cell, and improved back-end-of-line routability
Featured in the media
Discover how NanoIC’s early-access PDKs help researchers and industry explore future logic, memory and interconnect technologies.
Publications
Explore the scientific achievements of imec’s researchers, including those at affiliated university research groups.
Upcoming events
AVS72
Pittsburgh, USA
ITF Chip into the Future at SEMICON® Europa 2026
Munich, Germany
SEMICON Europa
Munich, Germany
Autonomous Edge Chiplet Forum - Fall 2026 - Invite only
Tokyo, Japan
The 10th RISE-A Evangelist Night: "Imec and Japan: Advancing Semiconductor Innovation Together"
Tokyo, Japan
SuperComputing SC
Chicago, USA
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