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Novel Approaches to Wafer Handling

Economics are forcing semiconductor manufacturers away from traditional 3D through silicon via (TSV) packaging integration. The future of advanced packaging continues to evolve towards chiplets and innovative new ways to combine specialized microelectronics components. This allows manufacturers to streamline the production for individual “subassemblies” that can then be configured later...

IFTLE 454: TSMC Exhibits Packaging Prowess at Virtual ECTC 2020

I cannot say I enjoyed this year’s COVID 19 version of ECTC 2020, but I guess it was better than nothing. I will leave the discussion of what I would like to see improved in the software package for the organizers. Let’s first take a look at three key papers...

And the Winners of the 2020 3D InCites Awards Are…

The 2020 3D InCites Awards program has been a bit of a nail biter for us all, as we waited for the judges’ votes to see how they aligned with the online votes. Remember: the online votes serve as one judge. So, it was possible to win the online vote...

Advanced Packaging: Game Changer for Semiconductor Revolution

Advanced packaging has entered its most successful era boosted by a need for better integration, the end of Moore’s law and, beyond that, the megatrends, transportation, 5G, consumer, memory & computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC). The market today is dominated by large integrated device manufacturers (IDMs), such...

Fan-out Panel Production Becomes a Reality

Fan-out panel level production is underway at Powertech Technology, Inc. (PTI) for MediaTek’s power management integrated circuit (PMIC) for smartphone applications.  The Samsung Galaxy watch uses the fan-out panel level process (FOPLP) developed by Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO) to package the application processor and PMIC.  Future applications under consideration for panel production...

What Will Happen With the Chinese Advanced Packaging Ecosystem?

In 2015, more than US$1 billion was invested in China’s advanced packaging ecosystem, announces Yole Développement (Yole) in its report Status and Prospects for the Advanced Packaging Industry. And right now, more than 100 companies are involved in assembly and packaging activities in China. Almost all key global integrated device manufacturers...

Spotlight on FOWLP, Monolithic 3D IC and 3D TSVs

Fan-out wafer level packaging’s star is clearly on the rise as a low-cost solution for consumer mobile products, and the semiconductor industry trade news has been buzzing with unsubstantiated claims that Qualcomm is ditching through silicon vias (TSVs) for monolithic 3D ICs (M3D) in its next generation of cell phones....

Glass Interposers Take the Stage at ECTC 2014

I have to admit, for some time I’ve been fairly skeptical about glass interposer technology as a viable alternative to silicon interposers. It’s not that I doubted the expertise of research scientists like Rao Tummala and Venky Sundaram at Georgia Tech’s 3D Packaging Research Center (PRC), who have been evangelizing about...