Luc Van den hove - imec

President & CEO - imec

A world under pressure needs skyrocketing collaboration
We are living through a time of complexity. Geopolitical tensions, economic instability and the climate crisis form a knot of mutually reinforcing challenges. And as the problems become increasingly complex, so do the solutions. We need system solutions that build on cross-pollinations between sciences, sectors and industries, and with semiconductors as a flywheel enabling disruptive innovation. To handle the exponentially growing complexity in a sustainable way, we will need a multitude of semiconductor and system scaling approaches. And collaboration between regions across the globe, leveraging the expertise of the entire value chain, will be key. The chips acts have the potential to strengthen different regions in the world and complement each other. They offer an opportunity to create critical mass to drive progress in semiconductor technologies, which is essential to develop the disruptive system solutions that our world needs today. If they’re done in a smart way, the various chips acts offer an opportunity to accelerate innovation. They are a catalyst to open up, connect strengths, and pursue cross-border collaboration. Only of we deliver as one, we will succeed.