Specialty technology platforms: Placing deep tech into product innovation

In the new era of AI, the CMOS scaling race continues but new technology modalities are emerging. With an ever-increasing need of data streaming capabilities, new energy-efficient technologies are needed at a small form factor: the  intimate co-integration of advanced computing, optical connectivity is an answer to this. Other specialized sensing technologies are coming up as well providing additional data to feed the AI fabric. The heterogenous nature of such new chips comes with increased complexity and risks.

In order to intersect the next generation of products in a safer way, technology consolidation is needed to be cost-effective and mitigating hardware readiness risks. Imec will give an overview of different advanced technology platforms and their roadmap towards manufacturing, such as photonics, 3D integration and CMOS post processing.