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Tour de France in 3D – Day 4

Our visit to the St. Jeoire facility of Replisaurus/SET got off to a glorious start with dinner Wednesday evening at the lovely Hotel Baud, in nearby Bonne, France, where we were staying. Patrik Möller, Replisaurus co-founder and CEO Jim Quinn, flew in from...

Wanted: Industrial Partners for Novel TSV Development

A few months ago, Andreas Fischer, of the Microsystem Technology Laboratory School of Electrical Engineering Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, contacted me to tell me about a novel process for filling TSVs that he had been working on from first proof of concept in August 2008, as part of...

And Now, a Word for Our Sponsors

While there’s no denying that our registered members, guest bloggers, forum panelists, advisory board, and regular readers are all vital elements of the 3D InCites community, none of this would be possible without the financial input of our advertisers. So I would like to briefly take up some blog space...

The Psychology of 3D Integration

Long before he set out on the 3D Holy Grail, Herb Reiter had other pursuits that involved bringing new technologies to market. Most notable is his work with field programable gate arrays ( FPGAs) and application specific ICs (ASICs), which, according to Reiter, actually started out as customer specific ICs...

Notes from the GSA 3D IC Workgroup July Meeting

Although I don’t often get to attend the GSA 3DI IC Workgroup meetings personally, I am on the mailing list and like to share the notes when they come my way. Harrison Beasley, technical working groups manager sent a brief review of the July 12 meeting that took place at...

IWLPC in 3D

I just got back from the IWLPC 2011 in Santa Clara, and my head is full of commentary just begging to be dumped on a page. This year’s agenda was jam packed with 3D discussion — plenary talks by Matt Nowak of Qualcomm and John Lau of ITRI, a panel...

My Sojourn to SEMATECH

I’m a big believer in building relationships. One of my goals with 3D InCites is to make the rounds of all the research organizations with 3D IC programs, not only to ogle all the cool tools and compare 300mm clean rooms, but to get a real feel for how each...