Industry News

Permanent Wafer Bonding

There are many ways to stick two wafers together.  Tezzaron uses two permanent bonding methods: copper thermo-compression and copper/oxide “hybrid” – the latter developed by Ziptronix and licensed to us.  Hybrid bonding gets a vote of confidence in Amandine Pizzagalli’s recent summary (in 3D InCites): [Read More]

Network-on-Chip

Let others argue about the demise of Moore’s Law.  (Next year? Yesterday?)
K. Charles Janac defines a solid pathway to future electronics in his EE Times piece:
“Life After 28nm: Think Network-on-Chip”

Economic realities of 3D

Economics create a mandate for vertical packaging according to Ed Sperling of Semiconductor Engineering.  Read his article here.

Courage!

Francoise von Trapp – “The Queen of 3D” – wonders why more companies aren’t designing 3D chips with through-silicon interconnect.  Her conclusion: “it all comes down to courage. We’ll see who has it and who doesn’t”!

Read her article … [Read More]