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The annual International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS) International Symposium has always focused more on advancements in mainstream packaging technologies, and left the emerging innovative processes to its spring event, the International Device Packaging Conference. As such, its speakers generally offered the most conservative viewpoints on 3D adoption. In a...
While 3D IC production is underway for memory devices, some say demand for 3D ICs is still years away. Could both be right, or are we getting mixed messages? Today’s news from SEMICON Taiwan, in which a DigiTimes reporter quoted Mike Liang, president of Amkor Technology Taiwan as saying that...
Year’s ago, when I was managing editor of Advanced Packaging Magazine, each January issue featured an industry forecast cover story. For several years in a row, that issue predicted advanced packaging would be the key to improved performance at lower power and lower cost. January of 2007, we declared “Packaging...
Good news! At last week’s GSA 3D IC Packaging Working Group Meeting, July 23, 2014, Jan Vardaman uttered the words I’ve been waiting to hear her say for quite some time. “Memory stacks with TSVs are here!” Vardaman cited three companies actively involved in new memory architectures, all of which...
The winds of change are blowing in the semiconductor industry. And while some cling tightly to the way things have always been, it’s becoming more apparent that for those who can adapt, there are a multitude of opportunities, and for those who think it can stay the same, it will...
3D integration is being touted as the next semiconductor revolution by industry. 3D integration involves the use of various interconnects that include balls, pillars, bond wires, through silicon vias (TSV) and redistribution layers (RDL) for enabling chip stacking, interposer and printed circuit board (PCB) based technologies. More recently 2.5D integration...
Somehow in all my preparations for the 2014 3D InCites Awards and planning the schedule for SEMICON West this week, a significant piece of news slipped right by usually alert 3D radar for TWO WHOLE DAYS! On Tuesday, Micron issued a press release announcing a collaboration with Intel to deliver an...
I can’t believe it’s already been a year since I last posted my annual guide to 3D at SEMICON West. One thing I’ve noticed in scanning the “regulars” (SEMI and SEMI partner events) is that all the agendas are much less focused on 3D integration developments. I think there are...
If, as we heard at last week’s 3D IC Forum at SEMICON Singapore, that technology challenges and cost are no longer keeping 3D ICs from volume manufacturing, and indeed the key players are ready to go, then what’s it going to take to get this 3D IC adoption party started?...
When I saw that Dev Gupta, Ph.D, of Advanced Packaging & Systems Technology Laboratories, LLC (APSTL) was presenting at the IMAPS Arizona Chapter luncheon last week, there was no questioning my attendance. Dr. Gupta has been an active participant on 3D InCites, offering regular commentary on posts, so I was...
