Q&A with Kris Myny, Principal Member of Technical Staff at imec (.PDF Download)

First, can you tell us a little about imec?

Founded in 1984 in Leuven, Belgium, imec is an R&D and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. Our company offers R&D solutions to create new technologies and innovation services for both products and services. By leveraging world-class infrastructure and local and global ecosystem of partners across a multitude of industries, imec creates groundbreaking innovation in application domains, such as healthcare, smart cities and mobility, logistics and manufacturing, and energy.

The combination of advanced microchip technologies and state-of-the-art software expertise is what makes imec unique. The evolution in microchip technology toward more powerful and smaller chips allows us to make every object intelligent and bring tons of data to our fingertips.

imec pioneers compact, high-throughput, and power-efficient design solutions for next-generation wireless communication. Our portfolio includes millimeter-wave phased-array transceivers, record-breaking analog-to-digital converter (ADCs), reconfigurable low-noise frequency synthesizers, tunable duplexers, and more. Our solutions cover the entire spectrum of wireless communication ranging from LTE to 5G.