ASIC from a single source

Unlike integrated circuits (ICs) freely available on the market, ASICs are manufactured only for specific applications and, more importantly, only for one particular customer. Although this exclusivity has its price (one-off costs in design and production preparation), it offers invaluable advantages today: once the wafers with ASICs have been manufactured, you are largely independent of supply chains and allocations on the chip market. Another increasingly important advantage is the protection against piracy and plagiarism. Since an ASIC is only available to the client, a plagiarist would have to understand the chip through reverse engineering, recreate the circuit and have it manufactured. Therefore, the threshold to replicate an ASIC is very high. MS CHIPS accompanies customers all the way to series ASIC through a preliminary feasibility check, a jointly created specification, cost-effective sample production via multi-project wafers, comprehensive transparent documentation of the design process up to design release. The production of the ASICs as well as the assembly into the desired IC package is carried out by partners with whom IMS CHIPS closely cooperates. With our own laboratories for quality, lifetime tests and our in-house qualified assembly line, we can meet all desired standards. ASICs from IMS CHIPS can be found in virtually all areas of technology: in industrial control systems, in vehicle construction, in aerospace and in medical technology research. ASICs also play an indispensable role in current innovation topics, such as AI, quantum systems and energy technology.