Imec Reports 9 Percent Growth in 2014
Nanoelectronics research centre imec, has reported the financial results for fiscal year ended December 31, 2014. Revenue for 2014 totaled 363 million euros, a 9 percent growth from the previous year.
The fiscal year end total includes the revenue generated through R&D contracts from international partners, collaborations with universities worldwide and funds from European research initiatives. The annual revenue figure also covers a yearly grant from the Flemish government totalling 48.8 million euro in 2014, and a 4.1 million euro grant from the Dutch government to support the Holst Centre, a research centre setup by imec and TNO.
"I am extremely proud that 2014, our 30th anniversary year, concludes as one of our strongest years ever," said Luc Van den hove, president and CEO at imec. "We reported strong financial growth, announced new collaborations and inspiring innovations. We filed a record number of patents, achieved notable industry awards and published prominent scientific papers"”all a testament to our commitment to innovate. Moreover, we also added significant talent to our already impressive roster of researchers, growing to a total of 2,188 employees by the end of 2014."
"Looking to the future, together with our partners, we are committed to overcome the next challenges. First, we work to enable the fabrication of sub-10nm technology. With further scaling, new lithography techniques and new materials, and based on CMOS technology, we'll be busy doing that for another number of years. But we have also started looking for materials and techniques for the post-CMOS era. There are many alternatives, and it is our task to see which of these can be scaled to a technology that can be mass-produced. Next to that, we help our partners with technologies for the sustainable and smart applications of the Internet-of-Things, Internet-of-Energy, and Internet-of-Health. It is expected that 2015 will be an important year for the breakthrough of these systems. A breakthrough that will be positive for the whole semiconductor industry;" continued Luc Van den hove. "This ground breaking research requires ever more talent. That's why today we have over 100 vacancies for a variety of profiles. Vacancies for people who have the ambition to contribute to the technologies for a sustainable future."
