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EV Group Earns Exceptional Seventh Consecutive Triple Crown Win in VLSIresearch 2019 Customer Satisfaction Survey

EV Group July 8, 2019 Press Releases, Uncategorized 0

EVG continues win streak with 17th consecutive year listed among “THE BEST” suppliers in survey results; frequently cited by customers as best at partnering and recommended supplier EV Group (EVG) today announced that it has once again been voted by customers as one of the 10 BEST Focused Suppliers of Chip Making Equipment and one of 2019’s BEST Suppliers of Fab Equipment in the 2019 V... »

Trymax Receives Multi-System Orders from a Top Ten OSAT

Ludo Vandenberk May 15, 2019 Press Releases, Uncategorized 0

NIJMEGEN, THE NETHERLANDS – May 15, 2019. Trymax Semiconductor Equipment BV (Trymax), a global leader in plasma solutions, today announced it has received multi-system orders for its NEO 2000 and NEO 3000 series from a top ten OSAT based in Taiwan. This order will expand the existing NEO install base at the customer in Taiwan and allows Trymax to break into the customer’s fab in China. Shi... »

IFTLE 405: DC Hu of SiPlus Classifies Advanced Packaging Technologies at IMPACT 2018

Phil Garrou February 21, 2019 Blogs, Packaging IFTLE, Uncategorized 0

As scientists, we have a tendency to classify and categorize. It’s our way of comparing and contrasting things in our world. Some of these classifications stick and some don’t. For instance at the start of 3D a decade or so ago, Eric Beyne of IMEC laid out a perfectly reasonable classification of 3D structures based on the level of interconnect they were making. [ Link] It made all the sense i... »

Happy Holidays, from all the elves at 3D InCites!

Francoise von Trapp December 18, 2018 Francoise in 3D, Uncategorized 0

The semiconductor industry could learn a few things from Santa’s elves. How about devices that package themselves? These guys may be onto something. Check it out. »

MEMS Packaging Market is Growing Faster Than The MEMS Devices Market

YOLE DEVELOPPEMENT November 2, 2017 Press Releases, Uncategorized 0

According to Yole Développement (Yole), the MEMS packaging market will grow from US$2.56 billion in 2016 to US$6.46 billion in 2022, showing a 16.7% CAGR[1] over this period. The MEMS packaging market’s value is growing faster than the MEMS device market’s value: respectively, a 16.7% CAGR for packaging versus 14.1% for devices, during the period 2016 – 2022. Under this dynamic context,... »

The FAST route to the Top of the TSV Mountain

Francoise von Trapp March 8, 2017 Blogs, Francoise in 3D, Uncategorized 0

. While on a recent visit to UnitySC in Grenoble, France, I spent some time visiting with a semiconductor process equipment company that shares the same cleanroom space: KOBUS. Named for a genus of the African antelope for its elegance and speed, the company has developed a unique approach to deposition for through silicon via (TSV) metallization processes (barrier, seed and fill) combining the pe... »

Cast your votes for the 2016 3D InCites Awards

Francoise von Trapp July 6, 2016 Uncategorized 0

This year’s awards will be decided entirely by your industry peers through this online voting process. The nominees are listed below by category. You must be registered and logged in to vote. Please vote for one per category. You may vote one time in a 24 hour period. Standings will be displayed until July 5, but to keep it interesting, we will hide the standings for the last three days of votin... »

Path Finding and 3DPF

Bill Martin June 23, 2015 3D by Design, Blogs, featured, Uncategorized 0

In the past year, I have written short pieces explaining how Path Finding methodology can proactively help identify viable solutions or reactively identify solutions if something changes during manufacturing. The next few blogs will look at specific examples using a PF tool to help separate the ‘wheat from the chaff’. Signal Assignments When I was designing ASICs/SOCs at VLSI Technology, we no... »

Why is it Taking so Long to Ramp Interposer and 3D IC Designs?

Herb Reiter January 14, 2015 2017 Industry Outlook, 3D In Context, Blogs, featured, Uncategorized 2

And what are we going to do about it in 2015…? A moment ago I finished reading my predictions for 2014. I wrote them on January 11, 2014, almost exactly one year ago. After convincing myself that I was roughly on target, I am going to stick my neck out again, and, hopefully, give you some food for thought. I hope you can agree with me that my previous predictions, emphasizing good prospects for... »

Popping the Cork on 3D IC at IEEE 3DIC 2014

Peter Ramm January 7, 2015 Blogs, featured, From Different Dimensions, Uncategorized 0

The IEEE International Conference on 3D System Integration (3DIC) was held in Kinsale, Cork, Ireland in December, 2014. The three day conference covered all 3D IC topics, including 3D process technology, materials, equipment, circuits technology, design methodology, thermal effects and applications. The 2014 conference was very successful with a great atmosphere with vigorous discussion and lots o... »

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