MIMOS
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MIMOS Berhad (or MIMOS) is Malaysia's national applied research and development centre under the Ministry of Science, Technology And Innovation (MOSTI). It is a public company wholly owned by Minister of Finance Incorporated (MoF Inc.).
MIMOS began as a unit of the Prime Minister's Department in early 1985, under the name Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems, aimed to increase the skill and knowledge of Malaysian engineers and scientists and support the creation of "new electronic-based industries".[1]
MIMOS is a strategic agency under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) and an innovation centre in Semiconductors, Microelectronics, and ICT technologies. Since its inception, MIMOS has filed over 2,000 patents in various technology domains and across key socio-economic areas.
MIMOS oversees R&D Centres focusing on Semiconductors & Thin Film Research, Embedded Systems, and Technologies for Manufacturing and Smart Nations.
1997 MIMOS commissioned Malaysia's first wafer fabrication plant (Fab 1) for R&D and small-scale production of 1.0 micrometre digital CMOS technology, 6-inch (152 mm) wafer, 600 wafers per month.
It fabricated Malaysia's first locally designed Integrated Circuit (IC), 16-bit RISC & microprocessor Pesona, in May 1997.
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- Government-owned companies of Malaysia
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- Research institutes in Malaysia
- Companies based in Kuala Lumpur
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- Research institutes established in 1984
- Companies established in 1984
- 1984 establishments in Malaysia
- Ministry of Energy, Technology, Science, Climate Change and Environment (Malaysia)
- Minister of Finance (Incorporated) (Malaysia)
- Privately held companies of Malaysia