LEUVEN, Belgium – As imec develops the next level of integrated circuit chips, Cédric Rolin, the institute's program manager for sustainable semiconductor technologies and systems, and members of his team are focusing on making the global chipmaking process more environmentally sustainable, he told EE Times. Imec is one of the world's largest research centers for semiconductor technology.
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"At imec, our bread and butter is developing the next generation of chips," Rolin said. "We have this enormous ecosystem within the semiconductor industry. We are leveraging that ecosystem and our knowledge of the next generation of processes, bringing together everyone, and seeing how we can collectively look at every single aspect of this whole process. Then (we will) go and change not just the performance and the cost, but also that environmental aspect. It's one additional element that we pull into our core program but, since it's so important, it's a separate program that we've started that we're trying to get everyone to join."