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Spelling[edit]

Shouldn't this be IMEC? It's an acronym, like NATO, not a word, and they spell it IMEC (all caps) on their website (except when, for apparently stylistic purposes, they spell it imec in all smalls). Ehusman 02:24, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alas, it looks to me like they spell it as 'imec" in the middle of sentences, "Imec" at the start of a sentence, and "IMEC" only in headlines that are all capital letters. Too late I suppose to move it back? W Nowicki (talk) 23:08, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I changed the page to "imec" since this is the commonly used name and this is what they use on their website.

Galgalesh (talk) 11:56, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It's a marketing strategy to harmonise with the logo, which is in lowercase. It should be an acronym, in my view. Jondvdsn1 (talk) 15:47, 16 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikipedia Manual of Style (particularly, MOS:TMRULES) states Follow standard English text formatting and capitalization practices, even if the trademark owner considers nonstandard formatting "official", as long as this is a style already in widespread use, Capitalize GEICO, IBM, as acronyms/initialisms. So unless a significant amount of secondary sources out there refer to them by "Imec" or "imec", IMEC should be capitalised in all upper-case here. — AP 499D25 (talk) 11:29, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright[edit]

The text in the article is in large parts similar to the text here. I am not certain whether this is a copyright infringement or not. Please check and act as needed. I usually work on the German Wikipedia, so I do not have an account here. Greetings --Nfreaker91 18:58, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Not only copyright violation, but a bad article style too. Still needs fixing, although that URL is now dead. http://www2.imec.be/be_en/about-imec/company-profile.html looks similar now. W Nowicki (talk) 23:08, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

start-ups[edit]

Imec has had some success with start-ups, spawning Co-Ware, now a significant EDA company, FillFactory which was sold to Cypress Semiconductor for $100m, Sirius Communications and Target Compiler Technologies. Over 20 years it has seen a 22 per cent return on its start-up investments.

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2006/05/17/38671/incubator-to-send-start-ups-on-us-visit.htm

Royzee (talk) 15:36, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]