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Dagblad van het Noorden

Computerchip van IMChip uit Groningen werken zoals ons brein. ‘Beyond Silicon Valley, zou ik zeggen’.

Ruben speaks with Jean-Paul Taffijn( (Foto: Geert Job Sevink)

December 2025

Siemens Cre8Ventures

IMChip joins a partner-led, digital twin environment for product validation as a part of Siemens’ dual-use drone campains to bring in-memory computing architecture in the Europe’s sovereign marketplace.

December 2025

IO+ on Tamalika’s vision

Innovation Origins on Tamalika’s outlook and desire for a sustainable future, AI as a wicked problem, and her upcoming keynote at Watt Matters in AI!

November 2025

SNN (JTF) VIA subsidy

IMChip receives subsidy from the Just Transition Fund through the VIA Groningen 2021-27 Noord-Nederland program and the RIS3 2021-27 managed by SNN for upscaling processes to make brain-inspired computing a reality.

October 2025

Granted NWO Take Off 1

IMChip has been awarded the grant for technical and commercial feasibliity check of energy-efficient chips.

July 2025

SNN Feasibliity Grant

IMChip receives subsidy for performing feasibility studies towards the development of Neuromorphic technology.

July 2025

Pre-seed Investment

IMChip recieves investment from Future Tech Ventures for next-generation chip architecture that thinks like the human brain!

June 2025

‘In de Wetenschap (In Science)‘

On the University of Groningen’s podcast, Tamalika, shares her personal journey as a scientist, the challenges and turning points in her academic career, and how groundbreaking lab research led to the founding of IMChip!

June 2025

BNR Nieuwsradio podcasts

We talk about the rising AI computational demands and our goals to develop energy-efficient chips.

June 2025

Founded on IMChip’s win to Silicon Valley

The Northern Netherlands startup ecosystem has written on IMChip’s success in the Academic Startup Competition and our recent journey to Silicon Valley.

June 2025

Top 10 winner of Academic Startup Competition

A proud moment as IMChip becomes the youngest startup from Groningen to win ASC 2025, organised by Techleap! Ready to head to the Silicon Valley.

March 2025

IMChip part of EU funded consortia

We are thrilled that the REACT consortium has been granted the EU funding to reimagine the future of computing as a new Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions!

March 2025

IMChip part of Cognigron’s team

With the founding of IMChip, our founder, Tamalika, sheds light on the vision of the company in an article about recent success out of the Cognigron Institute of the University of Groningen.

December 2024

The chips of the
future

The Broerstraat 5 article covers the launch of IMChip in an article featuring our founder.

November 2024

Founding of IMChip: From research to reality

Congratulations for launching IMChip and bringing us one step closer to energy-efficient computer chips.

October 2024

📅 July 2025

IMChip has been awarded the NWO Take Off 1 grant for developing brain-inspired energy-efficient chips.

🔗 Read more about all awarded projects: https://www.nwo.nl/

IMChip has been awarded the SNN MIT Haalbaarheid grant for performing feasibility studies towards the development of Neuromorphic technology.

📅 June 2025

IMChip was featured on the BNR Nieuwsradio podcasts, where we talk about the rising AI computational demands and our goals to develop energy-efficient chips.

🎧 Listen to the podcast here: https://www.bnr.nl/podcast/

Founded — the Northern Netherlands startup ecosystem — has written an article on IMChip’s success in the Academic Startup Competition and our recent journey to Silicon Valley.

🔗 Read the article here: https://www.founded.in/

Our founder, Tamalika, featured as a guest on the University of Groningen‘s podcast ‘In de Wetenschap (In Science)‘, to share her personal journey as a scientist, the challenges and turning points in her academic career, and how groundbreaking lab research led to the founding of IMChip!

🎧 Listen to the full episode here: https://www.rug.nl/…/podcasts/

🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/

📅 March 2025

A proud moment for IMChip as it becomes the youngest startup from Groningen to win the Academic Startup Competition 2025, organised by Techleap, and is ready to head to Silicon Valley from here on.
We are thrilled that the REACT consortium (with IMChip as a partner) has been granted the EU funding to reimagine the future of computing as a new Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions!

📅December 2024

With the founding of IMChip, our founder, Tamalika, sheds light on the vision of the company in an article about recent success out of the Cognigron Institute of the University of Groningen.

🔗 Read more about all awarded projects: https://www.rug.nl/…cognigron2

📅November 2024

The Broerstraat 5 magazine covers the launch of IMChip in an article featuring our founder.

🔗 Read more about all awarded projects: https://www.broerstraat5-rug.nl/broerstraat-autumn-2024/chips-of-the-future

From research to reality: CogniGron’s first-ever startup is here! 🚀 Congratulations to Tamalika Banerjee for launching IMChip.nl and bringing us one step closer to energy-efficient computer chips. The IMChip startup builds in-memory chips, offering: 🌟 1000x higher performance/Watt/💰 🌟 200x less energy consumption 🌟 100x lower latency

🎞️ Watch the launch video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QogXj8rOpyE