Before we start this week’s blog, let me take the opportunity to wish all IFTLE readers a Merry Christmas and...
There are several different fan-out wafer-level packaging (FOWLP) technologies that are currently in high-volume production. The traditional fan-out (FO) technology...
In 2017, AMD used chiplets in their “Zen 2” architecture to develop the Epyc server processor “Naples” (Figure 1). AMD...
The IMAPS International Symposium took place this year in Boston. Let’s take a look at a few of the more...
Samsung reports that they have seen increasing interest in multi-die integration (what they call MDI) for markets such as artificial...
Beyond HPC High-performance computing (HPC) has become an important tool for areas that generate high volumes of data. While today’s...
Samsung Electronics has announced the development of 12-layer memory using 3D through silicon via (3D-TSV) chip packaging technology. TSVs vertically...
It was in 1992 when Ted Tessier and I, in our paper, “Overview of MCM Technologies: MCM-D”, at the IMAPS...
Continuing our look out into the future, at the recent Hot Chips Conference, Dr. Phil Wong, VP of R&D at TSMC...
Earlier this year, John Shalf, department head of Computer Science at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs (LBNL) presented a plenary presentation...
Deca Technologies has confirmed that its M-Series™ fan-out wafer-level packaging (FOWLP) technology has been adopted by Qualcomm for power management...
IIFTLE is always on the lookout for technologies that will require advanced packaging solutions. Fingerprint sensors for today’s latest smartphones...
It was exactly a year ago that GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ announced that they would no longer be competing in the node scaling...
Is advanced packaging production coming back to the USA? The Navy (i.e. NSWC Crane) is currently seeking proposals from the...
Building on their previous announcements of its embedded interconnect bridge, EMIB, ( see IFTLE 324 “Intel EMIB Implementation in the...
Since it first appeared several years ago, IFTLE has been a big-time proponent of pre-applied non-conductive film (NCF) combined with...
Is GlobalFoundries looking for an exit or simply shedding parts of the company that do not fit its new focus?...
Requirements for interconnect pitches of 20µm and below is expected to be the norm in the future. Since typical solder...
As IFTLE has been predicting for many years, the baton is once again being passed. In the early days of...
IFTLE has been saying for a few years that the decades-long scenario of moving from one node to the next...