Imec’s Van den hove: Moving to Chiplets to Extend Moore’s Law

By Pat Brans, EETimes Europe (April 3, 2024)

Imec’s Luc Van den hove is a respected point person on applied research across the semiconductor industry, both on imec’s home turf in Belgium and in Europe as a whole.

President and CEO of imec since July 2009, Luc Van den hove began his career in 1984, when he joined imec to start research in the field of silicide and interconnect technologies. Author or co-author of more than 200 published papers, Van den hove is a respected point person on applied research across the semiconductor industry, both on imec’s home turf in Belgium and in Europe as a whole. “Interdisciplinary collaboration will be imperative to solve the complex tasks ahead,” Van den hove said, and toward that end, imec “[bridges] the gap from lab to fab, from academic research to industry-relevant R&D.”

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