Heterogeneous Integration spurs demand for 3D backend solutions Julian Ho reported in the Jan 10th issue of Digitimes that heterogeneous integration of diverse semiconductor components to support 5G, AI, automotive electronics, and IoT applications is gaining significant momentum, driving demand for system-in-package (SiP) and system-on-3D package (So3D) processes and boosting the importance of c... »
The overall semiconductor equipment market is today worth several billion dollars. By contrast, the permanent bonding, temporary bonding and debonding and lithography equipment market for the more than Moore (MtM) industry is a small niche representing millions of dollars. However, megatrend markets push MtM devices to new levels of complexity, resulting in big investments. Consequently, the tot... »
“Fan-out packaging is now a must-have in the portfolio to stay competitive,” asserts Favier Shoo, Technology & Market Analyst and part of the Semiconductor & Software team at Yole Développement (Yole). “New milestones are achieved by SEMCO and PTI with fan-out panel level packaging (FOPLP) technology. Both companies have invested and developed FOPLP for production successfully in 20... »
The annual International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) presents the latest developments in electronic device technologies focused on advanced scaling, heterogeneous integration, quantum computing, and wide bandgap devices. Among several excellent papers on 3D integration were two papers on 3D sequential integration, long the holy grail of 3D integration because of the promise of up to 50% logic-... »
The adoption of 3D ICs allowed the elimination of the “Memory Wall” using a new memory architecture and through silicon via (TSV) technology. While individual ICs became faster with each process node, the communication between the chips was constrained by limited pin counts, power hungry I/Os, and PCB-space limitations. Assembly of multiple dies into one package enables extremely wide busses b... »
When we look back at the last 10 years, it’s really been a series of baby steps to move the commercialization of 3D integration technologies forward. There is no single pivotal event that catalyzed the 3D evolution. Like the Chinese philosopher, Lao Tzu said, “do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a s... »
ERS electronic GmbH, the innovation leader in thermal management solutions for the semiconductor manufacturing industry, is taking the first ever step towards developing the new generation of thermal debonding and warpage adjustment tools for fan-out panel level packaging (FOPLP). The new ERS MPDM700 supports the increasing demand for fast prototyping and new product introduction of FOPLP. It offe... »
Just in case you didn’t have a chance yet to read part 1 of the ISS 2019 blog, covering day 1, it’s posted here. Technology and Manufacturing Trends Day 2 started with a keynote about the magic nanodevices can create, delivered byJo de Boeck, imec’s EVP and chief strategy officer. He emphasized that we need to find smarter ways to compute, store data and connect building blocks. De Boeck ... »
“Automotive applications are the new El Dorado for microelectronics,” announces Emilie Jolivet, Director, Semiconductor & Software at Yole Développement (Yole). The market is showing significant market drivers that are daily supporting the growth: electrification, connectivity, autonomy, and comfort are the keywords of today’s automotive industry. Under this dynamic context, the market ... »
Continuing our look at presentations from the recent 2018 IWLPC conference, let’s look at the Jiw Pai Henkel presentation on advanced packaging underfills. Henkel – Underfill Options for Advanced Packaging Bai and co-workers examined the use of capillary underfill (CUF), non-conductive paste (NCP) and non-conductive film (NCF) in advanced packaging applications (Figures 1 and 2). Each of... »
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