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Move Over 3D Memory, Logic-on-Logic Stacks Have Arrived!
Chalk up another industry first for Tezzaron Semiconductor, who announced just today (or tomorrow, if you are there for the excitement at IEEE...
Heterointegration, Friend or Foe: Opening the Door for Technologies Beyond Moore’s Law Silicon
What is heterogeneous integration, and is it my friend, or is it my foe? Why does it seem everywhere one...
Diverse Technology Selections Served at CS MANTECH 2015
What were all these silicon people doing at a compound semiconductor conference? CS MANTECH 2015 was the 30th anniversary version...
ASMC 2015: Has the Wonderment of Semiconductors Become a Presumption?
The 26th annual SEMI Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference was held in Saratoga Springs, NY, May 3-6, 2015. ASMC 2015 drew a...
Spotlight on FOWLP, Monolithic 3D IC and 3D TSVs
Fan-out wafer level packaging’s star is clearly on the rise as a low-cost solution for consumer mobile products, and the...
3D InCites Turns Six and Hits Over 1000 Posts
Today, LinkedIN reminded me that 3D InCites just celebrated its 6th anniversary. I also noticed that Paul Werbaneth’s latest 3D+...
Is Moore’s Law a Ceiling, Or Is It a Floor? More Notes From CS International 2015
Chris Mack, “Gentleman Scientist,” published an excellent piece on March 30, 2015 in IEEE Spectrum on “The Multiple Lives of...
Flying Many Flags: Heterogeneous Integration at CS International 2015
The fifth annual CS International Conference, 2015 edition, was held in Frankfurt, Germany, March 11-12, 2015. Very conveniently located in...
Advancing Sensing Solutions to 3D and Beyond
A second side trip on the way to DATE 2015 brought me back to Nimes, France to check up on...
Monolithic 3D IC Heats Up at DATE 2015
Despite the fact that monolithic 3D IC is still very much in development stages, its promise to gain a full...
Heterogeneous Integration Spoor In MEMS and Sensor Start-ups
The distinguished journalist Peter Clarke, writing in EETimes on 02 January 2015, identified what he called the “15-in-15: Analog, MEMS...
The Discussions Continue at the European 3D TSV Summit
At last week’s third edition of the European 3D TSV Summit, over 250 attendees from 22 countries gathered at Minatec...
What’s Different for 3D Stacked DRAM Equipment Shipments in 2015?
Why DID you miss your 2014 3D Stacked DRAM equipment shipment forecast? And what’s different about the outlook for 3D Stacked...
Understanding Heterogeneous 3D Integration
“How is heterogeneous 3D integration defined?” There are certainly different understandings in the microelectronics community regarding the definition of heterogenous...
Why You Missed Your 2014 3D Stacked DRAM Equipment Shipment Forecast
Remember SEMICON West 2012? How could you forget? It was all clubbing with your customers at The Redwood Room, DNA...
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...
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...
Cleaning Up By Backing In: TSMC and Heterogeneous Integration at MEMS Executive Congress 2014
“Go big or go home,” a waitress in a mountainy, remote, Wyoming town once said to a table of hikers,...
