This past fall, our packaging industry saw significant shortages of packaging substrates made from Ajinomoto Build-up Film (ABF). Let’s take...
On Definitions and Buzzwords Long-time readers of IFTLE know that I’m sensitive about nomenclature and buzzwords. For instance: “nanotechnology” and...
The World is Dangerously Dependent on Taiwan for Chips The Taipai Times recently published this position paper (written by reporters...
November 2020 saw the 7th IEEE International Workshop on Testing 3D, Chiplet-Based, and Stacked ICs (which IFTLE has been calling...
IME – Hybrid Bonding Studies Singapore’s Institute of Microelectronics – IME / AStar – was certainly the most prolific presenter...
The annual IEEE Electronics Packaging Technology Conference (EPTC 2020 – Asia’s equivalent to the ECTC) took place virtually in December,...
More on Reshoring Microelectronics By now everyone is aware that the US government, triggered by the pandemic, is in the...
Qorvo Begins SHIP RF Packaging Program IFTLE has previously discussed the US State-of-the-art Heterogeneous Packaging and Prototyping (SHIPS) program (see...
UMC Becomes #3 Foundry TrendForce reports that UMC is expected to overtake GlobalFoundries as the world’s #3 foundry this quarter...
More on TSMC’s SoIC Hybrid Bonding Technology Nikkei Asia announced that TSMC is working with Google and AMD to develop...
Continuing our look at presentations at the 2020 IWLPC, one of the themes of the conference was panel level processing....
Over its 17 years of existence, the IWLPC has morphed from a conference focused on wafer-level packaging to one basically...
Avi Bar Cohen 1946 – 2020 Before we take a look at some interesting papers from the recent IMAPS 2020...
In the second great keynote presentation of the Annual IMAPS Symposium a few weeks ago [see IFTLE 465 “ Intel...
In recent blogs, we have discussed the damage done to Intel’s leading-edge technology reputation by major delays in both their...
TSMC recently held its 26th annual Technology Symposium, so let’s take a look at the highlights of their presentations focusing...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched its Electronic Resurgence Initiative (ERI) in 2017 with the intention of reshoring...
In the August issue of IEEE Spectrum magazine, Samuel Moore published an article entitled “The Node is Nonsense”. (Note: Samuel...
Samsung’s X-Cube Samsung has announced that its advanced 3D integrated circuit (IC) packaging technology, dubbed “X-Cube,” is now available for...
Is 2020 A Lost Year? I recall, growing up in Hell’s Kitchen in NYC, the old-timers in the neighborhood used...