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PR NanoIC interconnects

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10 November 2026

Imec advances Europe's silicon interposer technology capabilities through NanoIC pilot line, paving the way for open chiplet design

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

Article Wavefront Shaping

Longread

Shaping light to see deeper into biological tissue: how wavefront shaping is extending the reach of optical imaging

Discover how integrated photonics and wavefront shaping could enable more precise imaging deep inside biological tissue.

Article Optical Interconnects

Longread

Scaling optical interconnects for the AI era

Scaling AI demands a new interconnect roadmap, moving from electrical to optical interconnects, and bringing the optics ever closer to the silicon.

neurpixel 2.0

Featured in the media

Nature spotlights how imec’s Neuropixels probes are transforming neuroscience

PR Noak

Press releases

30 October 2026

Noak, a new spin-off of imec and Hasselt University, raises €5 million to industrialize next-generation perovskite–silicon tandem solar technology

Article Patrick

AI will not scale without expanding ecosystem collaboration

The next compute multiplier will come from ecosystems, not isolated breakthroughs.

Article NVidia

Technology review

Advancing lithography through AI and accelerated computing

Imec harnesses AI and accelerated computing (AC) to advance the sub-nm scaling era with NVIDIA.

PR Polar

Press releases

12 October 2026

Polar collaborates with IC-Link by imec to manufacture 8-inch GaN technology

Holst Centre, High Tech Campus Eindhoven

Interview

Twenty years of imec in the Netherlands: from first step to lasting impact

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