IMEC
Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (imec) is an international research & development organization, active in the fields of nanoelectronics and digital technologies with headquarters in Belgium. Luc Van den hove has served as President and CEO since 2009.
Imec Headquarters in Leuven, Belgium | |
| Company type | Nonprofit company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Nanoelectronics, digital technologies |
| Genre | Independent research center |
| Founded | 1984 |
| Founder | Roger Van Overstraeten |
| Headquarters | , |
Number of locations | Taiwan, Japan, United States, China, Netherlands and India |
Key people | Luc Van den hove (President and CEO) |
| Services | R&D, business incubation, IP licensing, prototyping, training, (...) |
| Revenue | 846 million Euro (2022) |
Number of employees | >5,000 |
| Website | imec-int |
Imec leverages its state-of-the-art R&D infrastructure and its team of more than 5,500 employees and researchers for advanced semiconductor R&D activities, also including system scaling, silicon photonics, artificial intelligence, beyond 5G communications and sensing technologies. In 2022, Imec's revenue (P&L) totaled 846 million euro.
In September 2016, imec merged with the Flemish digital research center, iMinds.
In January 2024, it was anounced that imec would open a centre of R&D in the Andalusia Technology Park in Málaga, Spain.