Research collaboration
Nanoelectronics research centre IMEC and Panasonic Corporation have signed a joint research contract relating to advanced technologies in the semiconductor, networks, wireless, and biomedical fields. Research will be carried out at the Leuven, Belgium, facilities and IMEC’s research unit at Holst Centre in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Panasonic has been participating in IMEC’s joint research platform on the most advanced semiconductor process technologies as a core partner since 2004, to accelerate its open innovation in this field. Results of the collaboration include the world’s first mass production of the system-on-chip with 65 nanometre and 45 nanometre processes with Panasonic’s proprietary UniPhier. Now, a comprehensive joint research programme covering most of the research domains of IMEC will start by expanding the collaboration’s scope from advanced semiconductor process technology to application areas of semiconductors.
The Panasonic IMEC Center, to be established at the IMEC premises in December 2008, will conduct R&D on network technology such as dynamically reconfigurable software-defined radio, ultra-low power consumption wireless communication technology for healthcare and lifestyle monitoring and biomedical technology such as next generation biosensors.
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