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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...

MonolithIC 3D Inc. Issued 5th Patent on 3D IC Technology

MonolithIC 3D Inc., a Silicon Valley startup, announced today that it has been issued its fifth patent on monolithic 3D-IC technology. The patent describes techniques to obtain low-cost monolithic 3D logic chips with single crystal silicon transistors and high vertical connectivity. In addition to the 5 issued patents, the company...

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...

Entrepix smooths the path to 3D integration

These days when someone says foundry service one more often than not thinks of large HVM facilities in Asia churning out wafers for companies around the world.  Tempe, AZ-based Entrepix however, is a company that breaks that stereotype.  It is a provider of CMP and surface conditioning solutions that...