Semiconductor technology has caught the spotlight of global attention, as it is now understood by a broader community and political leaders to be the driving and enabling force for our wealth and wellbeing in the decades to come. It enables progress in communication, entertainment, economy, our life. How to further guarantee prosperity?

Our industry has developed itself over the past decades in a unique, networked and distributed chain of innovation stakeholders, ranging from system houses, ic makers, equipment and material companies and broader supply chain companies, in various continents, which probably is the enabler for the formidable growth and proliferation into essentially all markets.

Success will come through trusted relationships amongst innovators, smart R&D alliances, efficiently bringing together expertise and infrastructure, to meet the required pace of innovation.

Imec has been driving a unique, global, collaborative R&D innovation model over the past 4 decades, building around the opportunities that Moore’s law has been depicting, and further pathfinding to secure healthy roadmaps for our industry in the years to come.

In this talk, we will highlight how imec’s collaborative model can not only be an inspiration, but more so bring key partnering value when aiming for efficiency and global impact on the semiconductor industry. Japan has taken essential investment steps in defining its path for the future, in such collaborative spirit with other continents, aiming for a better world. As proud partners in this ecosystem, we’ll address the challenges on our joint path for success.