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Spelling
editShouldn'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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)- Most secondary sources capitalize it as "Imec" and "imec"
- https://nnieuws.be/artikel/imec-vlaanderen-start-testen-met-voertuigen-die-telebediend-autonoom-rijden
- https://www.tijd.be/ondernemen/durfkapitaal/leuvens-techfonds-imec-xpand-klokt-af-op-300-miljoen/10543508.html
- https://www.hln.be/leuven/technologiebedrijf-imec-tekent-als-eerste-in-op-vernieuwde-fietstest-bij-onze-expansie-voorzien-we-geen-bijkomende-autostaanplaatsen~a83db378
- https://www.made-in.be/vlaams-brabant/imec-werkt-mee-aan-nieuwe-pilootlijn-voor-chips-in-spanje/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:1812:171B:8500:9D8A:FEFC:9D08:CA76 (talk) 14:09, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
- Well, here I found at least six websites that capitalise it as 'IMEC': [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]
- The main issue I see with the lowercase capitalisation is it looks 'awkward' and out-of-place in text, and introduces reading difficulties as it is not clear right away if it's some word or if it's an acronym. The full uppercase capitalisation makes it obvious, without a doubt, that it is an acronym.
- Also, following the company's own branding guidelines exclusively gives Wikipedia a kind of 'corporate' look to it, as if it's sponsored by the company or something. Using the Wikipedia styling standard (MoS) gives the articles a neutral tone here.
- So yeah I'm actually strongly against the lowercase capitalisation. — AP 499D25 (talk) 14:21, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
- This is the official internal imec policy on the name:
- "The name Interuniversity Microelectronics Center is only used when the legal name is required. In all other cases, use imec."
- "On legal documents, i.e., contracts, invoices, purchase orders,... the official name(s) will be used, as well as the legal form of the company; e.g., IMEC vzw, IMEC Taiwan Co."
- "Spelling:
- In a sentence, imec is written in lowercase.
- At the beginning of a sentence, imec starts with a capital: Imec.
- When everything is in capitals, imec should also be in capitals: IMEC." 2A02:A020:382:C0B6:CD14:C477:A0E:B874 (talk) 09:15, 7 February 2025 (UTC)
- Once again, from the MOS:TMRULES section of the Wikipedia Manual of Style:
Follow standard English text formatting and capitalization practices, even if the trademark owner considers nonstandard formatting "official"
. A company's own policy about how it capitalises its brand name does not overrule Wikipedia's style guidelines. — AP 499D25 (talk) 09:55, 7 February 2025 (UTC)
- Once again, from the MOS:TMRULES section of the Wikipedia Manual of Style:
- Most secondary sources capitalize it as "Imec" and "imec"
- The Wikipedia Manual of Style (particularly, MOS:TMRULES) states
- 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)
- Since it's an acronym, all-caps IMEC makes most sense. Gawaon (talk) 08:40, 16 February 2025 (UTC)
- Agree that standard capitalisation is clearly the MOS preferred style - just as we do not have a flowing script for Kellogg's. As it happens, IMEC is also how the different affiliates are officially styled, as noted above. The official internal policy on how the company currently chooses to style itself is something that can be noted in the article itself. - Davidships (talk) 22:30, 17 February 2025 (UTC)
Copyright
editThe 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)
start-ups
editImec 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.