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The agreement signed by Leti and GlobalFoundries, the world’s second-largest foundry, in 2015 is now in the implementation phase. The agreement is for 22 nm FD-SOI, a high-potential technology for IoT applications due to its excellent balance between performance, cost, and miniaturization. GlobalFoundries has started up production at its Dresden, Germany plant for sampling purposes. […] >>

Exagan, which specializes in power components, has just invested in an Extron 200 mm epitaxy machine, currently being installed at a site near Grenoble. The investment comes less than two years after the company was founded. The automated, multi-wafer equipment will produce the company’s innovative material, which combines gallium nitride and silicon using a buffer […] >>

Marie-Noëlle Semeria, Director, Leti: « Leti appeared in the international press 50 times after CES 2016 »   How did Leti’s trip to the Consumer Electronics Show 2016 go? Leti and the startups that went along with the institute came away with several hundred leads—contacts with representatives of manufacturing companies working in all countries and […] >>

MINATEC and Argentina’s Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Industrial (INTI) signed a partnership agreement on February 26 in Buenos Aires. INTI, which has several technical centers across the country, offers R&D and technological support services to businesses. It also provides both educational programs and certification services. The partnership will help INTI acquire the know-how it needs […] >>

Although some of MINATEC’s younger researchers may not know who he was, Professor Pierre Gentil, who died in early March at age 70, played a major role in the development of microelectronics in Grenoble, elsewhere in France, and further afield. A graduate of ENSERG, he conducted research in the area of transistor reliability and electronic […] >>