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Recent signs that we’re getting closer to commercialization of 3D ICs? For one, analog and sensor IC company, ams AG, threw down the gauntlet, announcing it is investing more than €25M ($33M) to add manufacturing capacity for 3D ICs in its fab located near Graz, Austria. Analog 3D ICs featuring...
At last week’s Memcon 2013, which took place Tuesday, August 6, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Keynoter Bob Brennen, Senior VP at Samsung, talked about the need for New DRAM and Flash Memory architectures. Richard Goering summarized Brennan’s keynote very well in his blog post. Because Brennan’s responsibility...
A few weeks ago I spoke with SPTS’s David Butler, after he participated in the SEMICON Singapore 3D IC panel. We talked a lot about the importance of wafer planarity for performing backside processes like TSV reveal. Butler commented that regardless of a tool’s calibrated precision, its only as good...
There are a couple of notable updates circulating this week involving companies in the 3D space. The first I saw was news from Sony that it has introduced its next-generation CMOS Image sensor they claim is “ the industry’s smallest, CMOS image sensor and camera system”. The image sensor is...
Want to know how to torture a journalist? Invite them to present at a conference but ask them to sign an NDA so they can’t write about it! However, I can say this much: the 3D Program is alive and well at IBM. From IBM Fellow, Subramanian Iyer, I learned...
There are a couple of notable updates circulating this week involving companies in the 3D space. The first I saw was news from Sony that it has introduced its next-generation CMOS Image sensor they claim is “ the industry's smallest, CMOS image sensor and camera system”. The image sensor is...
First-ever Integration of In-line Metrology with Temporary Bonding/Debonding Enables More Repeatable and Reliable Process, Improved Yields and Lower Cost of Production ST. FLORIAN, Austria, June 21, 2011 – EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today announced it...
A new film-deposition technology advance from Alchimer S.A.is said to cut fill deposition times and could provide new options for the electronics packaging industry as it struggles to bring through-silicon vias (TSVs) into cost-effective production. Alchimer has disclosed that its AquiVia TSV barrier-layer process has the ability to provide uniform,...
SEMATECH’s story is one that is truly built upon the essence of collaboration. SEMATECH is not a traditional research center. Rather, it is a technology research consortium that exists to serve the best interests of its worldwide members and partners. Originally established in Austin, TX as an experiment in combining...
When will I learn that skirts and clean room tours don’t mix? And I always seem to be visiting EVG’s facilities when these situations arise. Yesterday at their Open House in Tempe, it wasn’t a clean room suit incident. It was the waffle floors with upward ventilation that almost caught...
