The cooperation adds design and simulation know-how to the AT&S portfolio and represents the next step in the "More than AT&S" strategy to provide solutions for high-frequency technologies and modules.
With the aim of jointly developing solutions in the field of high-frequency technology, AT&S has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with IMST GmbH in Kamp-Lintfort, Germany. IMST is a leading design and development center for radar, radio modules, communication systems, chip design, antennas and regulatory certifications and has its own accredited test center. IMST offers standard products such as radio modules with hardware/software as well as complete system and product developments.
"With this partnership, we are expanding our range of services and will be able to offer technical solutions for our customers' connectivity challenges in the future," says Andreas Gerstenmayer, CEO of AT&S. "With a competent partner like IMST, we can use synergies to build up specific know-how in the field of electronics development and thus advance our development projects and make innovations ready for the market more quickly." The aim is to offer jointly developed solutions for external partners and thus create added value for customers. "In future, our customers will have the advantage that we will not only be able to provide them with printed circuit boards. AT&S will be a sparring partner, evaluating the design and architecture of the solution and helping to significantly reduce development and time-to-market. This fits perfectly into our "More than AT&S" strategy, as we now see ourselves as a solution provider," says Gerstenmayer.
"As a global technology leader in the high-tech printed circuit board sector, AT&S is a perfect partner for us," says IMST founder and CEO Peter Waldow. "By utilizing each other's strengths and working closely together, we can offer the market even better solutions in the future. At IMST, we benefit from AT&S's know-how in the field of high-tech printed circuit boards and substrates. AT&S can draw on our design expertise in the field of high frequency."
One of the first projects of the new cooperation is a simulation to evaluate the differences in radiation between a standard solution and an embedded version. "The effect of the magnetic radiation of the electronics is to be evaluated using both simulations and real measurements," says Christian Vockenberger, Senior Manager Product Development at AT&S. AT&S already has specific expertise in this area, but would like to expand these resources with the help of IMST. "With IMST, we want to expand our system and design expertise in the field of RF modules and proactively offer our expertise in the field of system development," says Vockenberger. This exchange of knowledge will make it possible to
create sustainable value and IP by implementing new ideas. "We will expand our range of services and open ourselves up to new, future business opportunities."
