Francoise von Trapp (aka the Queen of 3D) has been following and reporting on the progress of 3D integration technologies since 2009. Francoise in 3D provides a high-level perspective of 3D industry events, offers executive viewpoints, and focuses on process and manufacturing aspects of 3D integration.
Are you listening to the 3D InCites podcast yet? We had a busy summer! Our listenership grew, and we achieved a significant milestone of over 5500 downloads since we first began our podcast journey just over a year ago. Not only that but we were excited to see we’re reaching...
On Tuesday, August 9th, President Biden sat down at a table on the White House Lawn for the highly anticipated signing of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. With the stroke of his pen, President Biden released public investments including 52.7 billion appropriations for semiconductor incentives; a new 25%...
I usually leave this sort of commentary to Phil Garrou and Dean Freeman. But after a year of debate and revisions, the CHIPS and Science Act (Formerly the CHIPS Act), has made it to President Biden’s desk, and who knows, by the time you read this, he may have signed...
Is it over already? SEMICON West 2022 flew by, true to form. My week was filled with keynotes and conversations with many movers and shakers in the semiconductor industry and beyond. Here are my initial observations and takeaways, with lots more to come in our upcoming podcast episodes. It’s a...
In a recent podcast episode, I interviewed Tom Smelker, of Mercury Microsystems, about the company’s role in providing safe and secure advanced packaging technologies for the UD DoD, as part of the SHIP program. SHIP stands for State-of-the-Art Heterogeneous Integrated Packaging. The company just opened a new facility in Phoenix...
As I listened to keynote speakers and panelists at the recent 2022 IMAPS Advanced SiP Conference talk about the commercialization of chiplet technologies, I felt a sense of déjà vu. The key takeaways of the talks and panel discussions sounded eerily familiar. And then it hit me: these were the...
I’ve started so many event blog posts since the return of live events with the phrase – it’s good to be back! But it bears repeating. And with ECTC 2022 weighing in with record attendance at about 2000 attendees, it’s clear that we are all pretty much done with virtual...
The semiconductor industry is on a rapid growth trajectory, with a goal of becoming a $1 trillion industry by 2030 – that’s only 8 years away! Getting there will require a tremendous amount of innovation, investment, and risk-taking – all characteristics that define an entrepreneur. But what does it really...
Apple announced that it’s launching the new M1 Ultra processor for high-end Macs during its ‘Peek Performance’ event in March and announced the mysterious “UltraFusion” as Apple’s “custom-built packaging architecture.” Let’s take a closer look! Is Apple M1 using TSMC CoWoS technology? The Apple M1 Ultra is currently only available...
A Conversation with KLA’s Lena Nicolaides 2021 was a big year for the semiconductor industry, and 2022 is expected to be even bigger. Ironically, despite the mayhem it caused, the chip shortage and its impact on the global supply chain turned out to be the best advertising we could have...
