JULY 28--ICOS Vision Systems (Leuven, Belgium;
www.ICOS.be), a supplier of inspection solutions for the semiconductor industry, and IMEC (Leuven, Belgium;
www.imec.be), an independent research center for nanoelectronics and nanotechnology, have agreed to work together under a two-year joint exploration and development program in the field of inspection and metrology for three-dimensional (3-D) packaging.