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IFTLE 568: Government Agency Roles in Onshoring Microelectronics

In Part 4 of my coverage of the IMAPS Onshoring Workshop, we look at how government agency roles impact onshoring microelectronics. Office of Industrial-Based Policy Adele Ratcliff, Director of the Innovation Capability and Modernization Office discussed Manufacturing Capability Expansion and Investment Prioritization (MCEIP). The mission of the Office of Industrial-Based...

Community Member Monthly News – August 2023

News you may not have seen this month from our community members. Along with some upcoming participation to keep an eye on. Onto Innovation announced over $100 Million in orders for systems supporting advanced packaging for AI. Its Dragonfly® G3 sub-micron inspection and metrology system supports production of AI chiplet packages....

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TechSearch International, Inc. Examines Advanced Packaging’s Growth in AI

Advanced Packaging’s Growth in AI TechSearch International’s latest analysis examines the demand for packages used in AI. As the industry enters the AI era, successful hardware deployment requires a supply of silicon interposers, or alternatives such as redistribution layer (RDL) structures and advanced laminates, to support high density. With the...

Chiplet Designs and Heterogeneous Integration Packaging

System-on-Chip (SoC) integrates ICs (by reducing the feature size) with different functions such as central processing unit (CPU ), graphic processing unit (GPU ), memory, etc. into a single chip for the system or subsystem. Unfortunately, it is more and more difficult and costly to reduce the feature size (to...

Mercury Systems Selected to Provide Secure Packaging for DoD SHIP program

ANDOVER, Mass., April 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY, www.mrcy.com), a leader in trusted, secure mission-critical technologies for aerospace and defense, announced it has been selected to provide trusted and secure advanced packaging for the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering’s (OUSD...

What’s in the Apple Watch Series 6?

TechSearch International’s teardown of the Apple Watch Series 6 GPS+LTE examined 108 board-level packages plus another 17 packages inside modules and found 27% more wafer level packages (WLPs) than in the previous Series 5, including packages in the wireless charger. Apple used more multi-die modules in the new watch. X-ray...

Additive Manufacturing for 3D Electronic Packaging

Additive manufacturing defines new boundaries for 3D electronic packaging, determined by new exceptional materials, new 3D cavity structures and the everlasting drive for lower cost of manufacturing. Additive manufacturing is a complex process by which products are constructed layer by layer using a 3D-printable set of materials such as photopolymers,...

Supplier Updates from ECTC 2016

In addition to attending the panel and plenary sessions at ECTC 2016, which took place May 31-June 3, 2016, I also spent a good deal of time talking to industry suppliers to get updates on their latest accomplishments that will impact the future of advanced semiconductor packaging, including interposer integration...

IC Packaging: An Essential Enabler and Differentiator, Part 2

The Great Miniaturization … SEMI/MEPTEC Conference Nov 10 & 11, continued from Part 1.  Wednesday morning started with a IC packaging session focused on my favorite subject: Multi-die Integration. Trevor Yancey, who recently joined Jan Vardaman at TechSearch International, talked about the IoT and gave an example for how the...

A Solder Bump Expert’s Take on the Expanding World of Advanced Packaging

An interesting take-away from the keynote talk delivered by Brandon Prior, Prismark Partners, at this year’s IMAPS International Device Packaging Conference, held March 11-13 in Fountain Hills, AZ, was the observation that just because new advanced packaging types are being introduced to the market, it doesn’t mean that older ones...