Belgian IMEC center remains one of the few European centers that can effectively engage in research in the field of semiconductor development. Previously, these centers had a lot more - in France and in Germany, but in the last ten years, Europe no longer stimulates the production of high-tech . IMEC Center confidently demonstrates the ability to move "forward and down", releasing experimental chips with the standards of less than 10 nm, for example , 5 nm.
Recently, IMEC has issued a press release which announced joining the program IMEC ARM Holdings of the British company. ARM company in particular needs no introduction. Developments on ARM - the architecture, instruction sets and complete processor and graphics cores - in most cases, have to take into account features of process technology, which will produce ready-made solutions. Electronic circuits must take into account the characteristics of the signaling elements that vary from process technology to the process, or about any optimization and the other bonuses with a decrease of technological norms of production do not have to speak.
Future technical processes - with the norms of 7 nm or less, to be determined before the end. There are plenty of options that will affect the circuitry. This number of projections on the layer, the materials used, the methods of shielding and protection from crosstalk and more. To be ready to design solutions with the norms of 7 nm or less is required to provide much in advance what will have to be dealt with. INSITE program center IMEC - this is the project that will draw a map of the future route to new solutions with future technical processes.