IC INNOVATION THE HEARTBEAT OF YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW

LUC VAN DEN HOVE - PRESIDENT & CEO IMEC

2010 2020

THE ERA OF DIGITAL DISRUPTION

COMPANIES THAT DARED TO TAKE A DIFFERENT VIEW

DISRUPTION EVERYWHERE

PC WAVE

1980

APP WAVE

2000 2015

IoT WAVE

INTUITIVE INTERNET OF EVERYTHING

UNPRECEDENTED OPPORTUNITIES

SMALLER FASTERMORE LESS POWER

WILL MOORE’S LAW CONTINUE?

TRADE-OFFS

SCALING WILL CONTINUE

SCALING HAS TO CONTINUE

MOORE’S LAW ON THE VERGE OF MORPHING

1

TECHNOLOGY OPTIONS

3 NM 2.5 NM 1.8 NM

…

FINFET LATERAL NANOWIRE VERTICAL NANOWIRE

2D WILL EVENTUALLY

SLOW DOWN

EXPLOIT THE THIRD DIMENSION

N-FET

N-FET P-FET

P-FET

COMBINE WITH 3D HETEROGENEOUS INTEGRATION

ADD NEW BEYOND CMOS DEVICE CONCEPTS

MAGNETIC DEVICES

MTJ

MTJ

MTJ

MTJ MTJ

MTJ

NEW SPIN-BASED CIRCUITRY

2

SYSTEM INNOVATION

EVOLUTIONS IN CLASSICAL VON NEUMANN ARCHITECTURES

NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING

NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING

EVERY NEURON IS CONNECTED VIA ITS SYNAPSES TO 10-15000 OTHER NEURONS

MIMIC THE BRAIN INTERCONNECTION SCHEME

IN HARDWARE

Ultra&low&powercircuit&design

Machine&learning

RRAM Thin&filmtransistors

Ultra&low&powercircuit&design

Machine&learning

RRAM Thin&filmtransistors

SYNAPTIC BEHAVIOUR WITH RRAM

QUANTUM COMPUTING

TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMOPTIONS ARCHITECTURES

CO-OPTIMIZATIONTECHNOLOGY

SYSTEM

2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021 2023 2025

90nm

65nm

40nm

28nm20nm

14nm

10nm7nm

5nm3.5nm

2.5nm1.75nm

DESIGN TECHNOLOGY CO-OPTIMIZATION

SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY CO-OPTIMIZATION

LOG

(#TR

AN

SIST

ORS

/$)

CMOS CHIP

OUTSIDE ANALOG WORLD

AN EXPLOSION OF CREATIVE APPLICATIONS

HEALTHCARE TOWARDS

PRECISION MEDICINE

TODAY - GENERIC TREATMENTS

NOT - GENETIC PROFILE

EVERY PERSON IS UNIQUE

TOWARDS EFFECTIVE

TREATMENTS

DNA SEQUENCING

6 BILLION CHARACTERS

RARE TUMOR DNA SEQUENCINGFOR CANCER THERAPY - DIAGNOSIS - SCREENING

FAST & SOPHISTICATED INSTRUMENTATION

COST PER HUMAN GENOME$100M

$10M

$1M

$100K

$10K

$1K

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

MOORE’S LAW

SOURCE: NIH

FROM MANY MILLION $ TO

A FEW THOUSAND $

MONITORING THE POLYMERASE ENZYME

Pacific Biosciences RSII Pacific Biosciences Sequel(announced Oct 2015)

7X FASTER3X SMALLER

2X LOWER COST

Pacific Biosciences RSII Pacific Biosciences Sequel(announced Oct 2015)

SILICON ENABLES

INTEGRATION MASS PRODUCTION LOW COST

DNA SEQUENCING OUTPACES MOORE’S LAW

THANKS TO MOORE

AUTOMOTIVE TOWARDS

SMART CONNECTED CARS

AUTOMOTIVE NEEDS AN UPGRADE

NOT SAFE NOT SUSTAINABLE NOT INCLUSIVE

TOWARDS SMART MOBILITYCONNECTED - DRIVERLESS CAR

ADVANCED SENSOR SYSTEMS

CAMERAS1 RADARS UP TO 30M2 RADARS UP TO 250M4 LIDAR5 GPS6 ULTRASOUND7RADARS UP TO 50M3

LIDAR HIGH-RESOLUTION & RELIABLE 3D SENSING

copyright Ford

TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED LIDAR SYSTEM

100X COST REDUCTION

10X SIZE REDUCTION

HIGH RESOLUTION

LOW POWER

LOW COST

SMALL SIZE

LEVERAGING STANDARD FOUNDRY TECHNOLOGY

CMOS RADAR ON CHIP

140GHz TOWARDS SMALLER &

MORE SENSITIVE RADARS

SMART SIGNAL PROCESSING DETECTION - POSITIONING - IDENTIFICATION

PEDESTRIAN? CYCLIST? ANIMAL?

TOWARDS FULL 360-DEGREE IMAGE

DATA FUSION

MASSIVE TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONSENSOR SYSTEMS WITH INTEGRATED PROCESSING AND MEMORY / ON-BOARD PROCESSING

MASSIVE TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONSENSOR SYSTEMS WITH INTEGRATED PROCESSING AND MEMORY / ON-BOARD PROCESSING

TODAY 80% OF AUTOMOTIVE INNOVATION

COMES FROM SEMICONDUCTORS

AUTOMOTIVE REQUIRES ADVANCED

SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES

CAR MOST INTELLIGENT ROBOT

IN OUR DAILY LIFE

NATURAL MACHINE-MAN INTERACTION

INTERNET OF EVERYTHING TOWARDS SMART INTUITIVE SYSTEMS

TSUNAMI OF SMART INTUITIVE SYSTEMS

INNOVATION ON SENSOR SYSTEMS

SINGLE-CHIP WIRELESS SENSOR SOLUTION

SENSORS

ACTUATORS

COMMUNICATION

PROCESSING

STORAGE

UNOBTRUSIVE

ULTRA-SMALL

CHEAP

INTELLIGENT

ENERGY EFFICIENT

SMART SENSOR SYSTEMS

COMPUTATION IS CHEAPER THAN BANDWIDTH

TRANSMIT WISDOM! NOT DATA

IoT SUPER BRAIN

OF THE WORLD

DATA DELUGE

DISTRIBUTED BRAIN

SECURE NATURAL INTERACTION

HARDWARE INNOVATION BIOMETRIC SENSORS, RADAR, …

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

DEEP LEARNING ALGORITHMS

IMMERSIVE GAMING MEDICINE AUTHENTICATION

CLASSIFICATION SECURITY DRIVER ASSISTANCE

BUILDING THE IoT ECOSYSTEM IS CRUCIAL

SEMICONDUCTORS KEY TO SUCCESS

THE IoT SHIFT

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CUSTOMIZED TECHNOLOGY

APPLICATION

SYSTEM

TECHNOLOGY

SYSTEM-TECHNOLOGY CO-INNOVATION

HARDWARE-SOFTWARE CO-INNOVATION

IMEC ECO SYSTEM

FABLESS & FABLITE

APPLICATION PARTNERS

SUPPLIERS

IDMS & FOUNDRIES

IDMS & FOUNDRIES

IMEC ECO SYSTEM

FABLESS & FABLITE

APPLICATION PARTNERS

SUPPLIERS

FABLESS & FABLITE

APPLICATION PARTNERS

SUPPLIERS

IMEC ECO SYSTEM

APPLICATION PARTNERS

SUPPLIERS

IMEC ECO SYSTEM