Advanced Substrates for Chiplets and Heterogeneous Integration
Today, most of the package substrates for HPC driven by AI (artificial intelligence) are made by the 2.5D IC integration. In general, for 2.5D or CoWoS (chip on wafer on substrate), the SoC and high bandwidth memories (HBMs) are supported by a TSV-interposer and then solder bump and underfill on a build-up package substrate. However, because of the ever-increasing size of the TSV-interposer, the manufacturing yield loss of the TSV-interposer is becoming unbearable. Front-end integration of some of the chiplets (before package heterogeneous integration) can yield a smaller package size and a better performance (3.5D IC integration). In the past few years, 2.3D IC integration or CoWoS-R is getting lots of traction. The motivation is to replace the TSV-interposer with a fan out fine metal L/S redistribution-layer (RDL)-substrate (or organic-interposer). In general, for 2.3D, the package substrate structure (hybrid substrate) consists of a build-up package substrate, solder joints with underfill, and the organic-interposer. In this lecture, the introduction, recent advances, and trends in the substrates of 3.5D IC integration, 3.3D IC integration, 3D IC integration, 2.5D IC integration, 2.3D IC integration, 2.1D IC integration, 2D IC integration, fan-out RDL, embedded Si-bridge, CoWoS-R, CoWoS-L, CPO, and glass core for HPC driven by AI will be discussed. Some recommendations will be provided.
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- Date: 16 Apr 2025
- Time: 11:30 PM UTC to 12:45 AM UTC
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John Lau of Unimicron Technology
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John H Lau, with more than 40 years of R&D and manufacturing experience in semiconductor packaging, has published more than 535 peer-reviewed papers (385 are the principal investigator), 52 issued and pending US patents (31 are the principal inventor), and 23 textbooks (all are the first author). John is an elected IEEE fellow, IMAPS Fellow, and ASME Fellow and has been actively participating in industry/academy/society meetings/conferences to contribute, learn, and share.
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