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What does 3D integration have in store for semiconductor and related industries in 2015?

Yole Développement invites you to discover the main technology trends and business opportunities for 3D integration in 2015. As a research market & strategy consulting company, Yole Développement (Yole) works with the leaders of the advanced packaging industry every day to understand technical challenges and market issues. In this article,...

IEDM 2014 3D Short Course Highlights 3D Memory Cubes for SYSTEM design

Years ago, when I gave my first 3D technology presentations, I noticed very different reactions from my diverse audience: The packaging engineers were in their element, engaged right away and asked detailed technical questions. The IC designers appeared quite worried about the strange — and for them, at that time...

3D ASIP 2014: All Aboard the 3D IC Train!

Like the previous 10 years, RTI International held the 11th 3D-IC focused conference in early December. Instead of the usual two and a half days, this year it spanned 3 days, because it also offered a 4-hour session about 3D design challenges and solutions available from foundries, EDA and IP...

Executive Viewpoint: Invensas Opens its Toolbox of Interconnect Options

We’ve heard it expressed many times whenever there’s a new interconnect technology vying for adoption: manufacturers will select the best performing option at the lowest cost to do the job. However, as performance requirements reach previously un-anticipated levels, pitch requirements become tighter, and density requirements become higher, the job of...

IC and System Designers, This Could be the Best Four Hours Spent this Year

Don’t miss a full morning of expert presentations about 3D-IC and Interposer design tools and methodologies! Since 2004, every December RTI International has organized  a 3D technology focused conference in Burlingame, near the San Francisco Airport. Supply side industry experts presented the progress they had made in developing new manufacturing and...

Putting 3D Integration to the Test

3D stacking is “already old hand”; or so declared Brion Keller, Cadence, in his keynote talk at last week’s 5th Annual 3D Test Workshop, which took place in Seattle, October 23-24, 2014. In his presentation, 3D Rock from the Sun, Keller talked about the wonders of technological progress, and how we...

GSA 3D IC Working Group Looks at 3D IC Readiness from Design through Manufacturing

At the recent GSA 3D IC Working Group Meeting (October 22, 2014), where speakers from BroadPak, Amkor, and Invensas presented on 3D IC readiness, I was struck by three observations. First of all, while challenges to 3D commercialization still remain, but they’ve shifted from manufacturing challenges to design and infrastructure...