July 8, 2013, IMEC Technology Forum, San Francisco—Luc van den Hove from IMEC described the overriding philosophies and some of the results of their research in his opening talk at the forum. The general concept for their work is the sum of minds. IMEC tries to bring together a wide range of diverse and complementary…
Interview with Lode Lauwers, vice president of Imec (Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre) Lode Lauwers, Vice President of Imec Imec’s history starts in 1984. The initial concept was to bring a few universities together in one location for further collaboration. “It was like scaling up of research” – recalled Lode Lauwers. He joined imec in 1985 as…
December 10, 2012, International Electron Devices Meeting, San Francisco—Luc van den Hove from IMEC described the changes in device technologies that will be the core of a sustainable society. Electronics has and will continue to affect all aspects of living, and the ability to provide greater performance at ever lower costs will drive societal evolution….
July 11, 2011, IMEC Smart Phone Forum, San Francisco—Justin Ratner, CTO at Intel, talked about the increasing demand for computing. He noted that last year manufacturers shipped almost 10 billion transistors for every person on earth or a total of 74.5 quintillion transistors. The compound annual growth rate for transistors in this century has been…
July 11, 2011, IMEC Technology Forum, San Francisco—Robert Gilmore, vp engineering at Qualcomm described the functions and capabilities of future smart phones. These phones have become the base platform for many functions outside of voice calls. Smart phones are now the biggest platform for communications in history. Through the ’60’s and ’70’s mainframes got to…
July 11, 2011, IMEC technology Forum, San Francisco—Eric Beyne, scientific director advanced packaging at IMEC addressed exploiting the 3rd dimension. Planar technologies and SoCs are running into a wall. The smart phone is the biggest driver for advanced packaging developments. Users want lower power (or equivalently longer battery life) while the designers try to cram…
July 11, 2011, IMEC Technology Forum, San Francisco—Serge Biesemans, vice president of process technology at IMEC described dream devices and processes. The next generation devices will not look like today’s CMOS. For a number of years, the industry has been processing semiconductors at ever smaller dimensions, below the wavelength of the exposing light. To make…
July 11, 2011, IMEC technology forum, San Francisco—Jo De Boeck, senior vice president for smart systems and energy technology at IEMC talked about future phone features. What does your phone know about you now? It knows your location, calendar, contacts, and communications threads. Would you like your phone to care about you? With new sensors…