Date: 12/07/2012

Imec and SK Hynix extend research collaboration

SK Hynix Inc and imec have announced that they have extended their research collaboration for three additional years. SK Hynix will participate in imec’s complete R&D program on advanced CMOS scaling for memory and logic.

“SK Hynix has highly recognized imec’s technology leadership in this industry. We expect this extended collaboration including Logic, Interconnect and 3D area with imec to be a cornerstone to enable us to strengthen our research competence for the next generation technology,” said Sungjoo Hong, Senior Vice President and Head of R&D Division of SK Hynix.

“We are excited that SK Hynix has joined our research platform as a full core partner. It is a confirmation of our fruitful collaboration during the past five years, and proof of the value imec offers the semiconductor industry,” said Luc Van den hove, president and CEO of imec “Collaborative path finding R&D based on a sharing of cost, risk, talent and IP, and cross fertilization between logic and memory companies, has become indispensable to overcoming the formidable challenges facing our industry. SK Hynix’s valuable know-how in memory scaling has been, and will continue to be, an important asset for imec’s global research platform.”