February 20, 2012 - Industry News
Kyocera America doubles its flip-chip assembly capacity
The new clean room offers the latest available technology, including fine-pitch flip-chip, multiple components within one operation, vacuum ...
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February 14, 2012 - Industry News
Elpida president discusses DRAM industry's future
Yukio Sakamoto, president and CEO of Elpida Memory Inc, delivered a lecture titled "DRAM Business: A Scenario for Counterattack" at the World Semi ...
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February 13, 2012 - Industry News
SILEX interview: opportunities for CMOS MEMS and 3D integration
In this interview, we spoke with Tomas Bauer, VP of Sales and Business Development at Silex Microsystems about his perspective on the latest TSV ...
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February 9, 2012 - Industry News
Rudolph's first metrology system for advanced packaging installed
Rudolph Technologies, Inc. announced that it has delivered the first MetaPULSE(R) metrology system for measurements of under bump metallization ...
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February 8, 2012 - Industry News
SUSS launches wafer bonding, debonding & cleaning platform for 3DIC apps
SUSS MicroTec, a leading supplier of equipment and process solutions for the semiconductor and related markets, launched the XBC300 Gen2, a high ...
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February 6, 2012 - Industry News
Mid end player Novellus sees China, WLP and 3D NAND as drivers
In a conference call following release of Novellus Systems' fourth quarter and full-year 2011 results, Archer was asked if he stood by earlier ...
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February 6, 2012 - Industry News
Graphene electronics moves into a third dimension
Now scientists from The University of Manchester have given its prospects a new lifeline. In a paper published this week in Science, a Manchester team ...
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January 30, 2012 - Industry News
Sony announces new stacked BSI sensor
Sony Corporation announced that it has developed a new next-generation back-illuminated CMOS image sensor which embodies the continuous evolution ...
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January 30, 2012 - Industry News
Discussion: Wide IO memory and high-performance DRAM stack design
For the last 3D blog post of 2011in the EDA360 Insider, I thought I'd take a flight of fancy and try to put as many of this year's major announcements ...
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January 25, 2012 - Industry News
Sony announces new stacked BSI sensor
Sony Corporation announced that it has developed a new next-generation back-illuminated CMOS image sensor which embodies the continuous evolution ...
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January 24, 2012 - Industry News
TSMC sees Samsung as formidable competitor
During a Q&A session at TSMC's investors meeting, Morris Chang, TSMC chairman and CEO, said that Samsung will substantially expand what it calls the System ...
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January 23, 2012 - Industry News
Optomec expands aerosol jet lab for 3D packaging
The new facility comprises 7600 square feet of office and general laboratory space and will be utilized for both advanced development of Aerosol Jet ...
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January 20, 2012 - Industry News
TSMC sees Samsung as formidable competitor
During a Q&A session at TSMC's investors meeting, Morris Chang, TSMC chairman and CEO, said that Samsung will substantially expand what it calls the ...
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January 20, 2012 - Industry News
The fast track to 3D-IC testing
Three-dimensional integrated circuit (3D-IC) systems offer the potential to deliver significant improvements in performance, power, functional density ...
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January 20, 2012 - Industry News
First major 3D TSV wide-IO product announcement is made by Renesas
This major announcement is the first one concerning a product release using this long awaited technology, the aim of which is to considerably increase ...
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January 19, 2012 - Industry News
Mid end equipment performance to be evaluated through SEMATECH's programs
3D integration is introducing several new process steps primarily on the wafer backside and between chip makers fab processes and packaging. These ...
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January 19, 2012 - Industry News
Sony plans to use TSV for its next gaming station CPU/GPU
Masaaki Tsuruta, CTO of Sony Computer Entertainment, says that the company is working on a system-on-chip (SoC) to underpin the product for "seven to ten ...
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January 19, 2012 - Industry News
Wioming : A Closer Look
TSVs (through-silicon vias) connect these three die together and "in order to minimize the impact of the TSVs on signal integrity, the 3D stack employs an ...
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January 18, 2012 - Industry News
Sony plans to use TSV for its next gaming station CPU/GPU
Sony Computer Entertainment is planning on a much longer shelf life for its next generation PlayStation gaming console with a strategy that appears to be ...
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January 10, 2012 - Industry News
STATSChipPAC packaging evolution to 2.5/3D: a closer look
At the recent RTI Architectures for Semiconductor Integration and Packaging (RTI ASIP), Raj Pendse, VP and CMO for STATSChipPAC (SCP) gave an in depth presentation ...
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January 10, 2012 - Top Story News
3D Challenges & Progress: A Closer Look
The standard IMEC TSV are currently 5 x 50 µm for 3D stacking (moving in the future to 3 x 50) and 10 x 100 for 2.5D interposers. This is where most of the industry has standardized. Beyne listed 2.5D/3D application drivers as ...
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January 5, 2012 - Industry News
Elpida starts sample shipments of wide IO memory
Elpida Memory, Inc. announced that it has begun sample shipments of 4-gigabit Wide IO Mobile RAMTM and 4-gigabit DDR3 Mobile RAM (LPDDR3). Wide IO Mobile ...
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January 4, 2012 - Industry News
Underfilling in the era of high density / 3D interconnect: a closer look
Five years later, Tsukada of IBM Japan published reports that bumped chips could be reliably attached directly to PWB laminate, if underfilled. He ...
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January 3, 2012 - Industry News
FCI Fujikura JV moves embedded packages to commercialization stage
Ted Tessier, CTO of FCI recently shared details concerning their embedded chip packaging partnership with Fujikura. This venture takes advantage ...
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December 27, 2011 - Top Story News
The Future of ASICS in 3D
There are at least two fundamentally different applications for 3D technology that are driven by completely different incentives. The mobile space is driven mostly by the need for reduced power, height and area. The infrastructure and networking space ...
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