India, July 15 -- imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, has extended its strategic partnership with Tokyo Electron (TEL), a leading Japanese supplier of semiconductor production equipment.

The agreement marks the start of a new five-year phase in their long-standing alliance. It will enable imec and TEL to deepen their joint R&D efforts in key areas such as next-generation patterning, advanced logic device processing, future memory development, and 3D integration - all aimed at developing semiconductor nodes beyond 2nm.

Since 1995, imec and TEL have partnered to drive advances in patterning, logic, memory, and 3D integration. Their long-standing collaboration has led to key breakt...