MIMOS
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| Public company | |
| Founded | Incorporated 17 October 1984 |
| Headquarters | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
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Key people
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Datuk Abdul Wahab Abdullah, President & CEO |
| Products | Frontier technology platforms |
| Website | www |
MIMOS Berhad (or MIMOS) is Malaysia's national R&D centre in ICT under purview of the Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI). Led by Datuk Abdul Wahab Abdullah, who was appointed in July 2006, MIMOS' vision is to become the premier applied research centre in frontier technologies, and to transform the landscape of the Malaysian indigenous industries. Towards this end, MIMOS' mission is to pioneer information and communication technologies (ICT) to grow globally competitive indigenous industries.
MIMOS' applied research efforts are focused on developing technology platforms upon which local industries can build products for the world market. MIMOS role essentially is to transfer or license the technology platforms to Malaysian companies to further develop these technologies into products and applications to serve the global market needs. Its aim is to help move Malaysia's ICT industry higher up the value chain and shift the economic needle.
MIMOS' technology platforms provide local companies – who are MIMOS' technology recipients – with a speedy time-to-market and price elasticity to position themselves globally. With the Intellectual Property (IP) that MIMOS has generated, it also aims to reposition Malaysia's indigenous industries to play in niche markets globally. This means, without having to invest in research, which has a long gestation period and high market uncertainty, the local industries are able to focus on building the brand and marketing channels.
The company was founded as the Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems in 1985.
MIMOS' R&D activities are focused on 10 technology thrust areas namely Advanced Analysis and Modeling, Advanced Computing, Intelligent Informatics, Information Security, Knowledge Technology, Microenergy, Microelectronics, Nanoelectronics, Psychometrics and Wireless Communications.
In the early 1980s a group of academicians, led by Dr Tengku Mohd Azzman Shariffadeen, the Dean of School of Engineering Universiti Malaya, discussed and realised that Malaysia was a leading country in exporting electrical and electronics products but none of the product's design, brand and marketing belong to Malaysian companies.
The informal discussions involving Dr Mohd Azzman (Universiti Malaya), Dr Mohamed Awang Lah (Universiti Malaya), Dr Muhammad Ghazie Ismail (Universiti Sains Malaysia), Dr Mohd Arif Nun (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia) and Dr Mohd Zawawi Ismail (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia) led to the realisation of Malaysia's need for an institute to conduct microelectronics research to support the industry and to develop indigenous products.
This realisation enabled the informal team of academicians to present the concept paper on microelectronics research and development institute to the minister and senior officers of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in early 1984.
Arising from the feedbacks, a concerted effort was made to present the idea to the then Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
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