Side-Channel Risks Across 2.5D/3D Integration and Chiplet-Based Systems (Grenoble INP – UGA et al.)


Researchers from Grenoble INP - UGA, CNRS, TIMA have released “Spying Across Chiplets: Side-Channel Attacks in 2.5/3D Integrated Systems”. Abstract “Advanced packaging and chiplet-based integration are increasingly adopted to build complex heterogeneous systems beyond the limits of monolithic scaling. While these architectures offer major benefits in terms of modularity, yield, a... » read more

Advancing Heterogeneous Integration Through Industry Roadmap Improvements


Heterogeneous integration requires comprehensive roadmaps to support collaboration across the design and manufacturing of the next generation of semiconductor products and the systems they support. A global team of researchers from a broad spectrum of industry, academia, and research institutes led by Intel has published a perspective in the March 2026 issue of Nature Reviews Electrical Enginee... » read more

Micro-Transfer Printing (MTP) As A Promising Scalable Approach to Heterogeneous Integration for Silicon Photonics (Ghent U., imec et al)


A new technical paper, "Micro-Transfer Printing on Silicon Photonics: Tutorial, Recent Progress and Outlook," was published by researchers at Ghent University, imec et al. Abstract "This paper highlights micro-transfer printing (MTP) as a promising scalable approach to heterogeneous integration for silicon photonics. MTP uniquely achieves high integration density, high throughput, and hig... » read more

Home Win: Challenging The Traditional Semiconductor Manufacturing Model


Across Europe, many of us have grown accustomed to a model where semiconductor products, subassemblies and components are sourced from the Far East almost by default. The rationale has always been clear: significantly lower labor and manufacturing costs made offshore supply the most commercially viable option. Yet, while this approach has long been convenient, it has never been without compromi... » read more

2.5D + 3D = “3.5D”!


The semiconductor industry is no longer defined solely by transistor scaling. As Moore's law decelerates, advanced packaging has become the primary lever for achieving system-level performance gains. Within this landscape, the equation 2.5D + 3D = 3.5D—defying the instincts of basic math and physics—captures a pivotal architectural evolution: one that balances performance, manufacturabilit... » read more

Rethinking ESD Protection for System-On-Integrated Chiplets (UC Riverside)


A new technical paper, "In-SoIC ESD Protection for Chiplet-Based 3D Microsystems: Future Research Directions," was published by researchers at the University of California, Riverside. Abstract "Heterogeneous integration opens a pathway to three-dimensional chiplet-based microsystem chips. Electrostatic discharge reliability is a major challenge to future smart chips featuring rich functio... » read more

When Semiconductor Materials Misbehave


Key Takeaways Material behavior in production depends on the process context that no development environment can fully replicate. In advanced packaging, the interactions that cross domain boundaries are increasingly where failures originate. The most accurate materials data is also the most commercially sensitive, leaving simulation models calibrated against generic inputs rather tha... » read more

System-in-Package Challenges


Systems companies and leading-edge chipmakers are pushing past reticle limits with chiplet-based designs, often breaking compute-intensive functions into different chiplets and coupling those with other chiplets that may have been developed by different teams and at different process nodes. This is harder than it sounds, and results can vary widely even under the best circumstances. Nir Sever, ... » read more

Panel-Level Packaging’s Second Wave Meets Engineering Reality


Key Takeaways Panel-level packaging is arriving not because the engineering is ready, but because wafer-level economics are breaking down. Glass improves the warpage and dimensional stability problems of organic substrates but introduces a different class of failure modes that require materials solutions, not process adjustments. The central challenges of panel-level processing are m... » read more

Chiplet Standards Aim For Plug-n-Play


Key Takeaways Die-to-die chiplet standards are only the beginning. Many more standards are necessary for a chiplet marketplace. A number of such standards have either had initial versions released or are in progress. Existing work covers packaging, a system architecture, various design kits, a universal link layer, and updates to BoW. Today’s chiplets exist in silos. In a ... » read more

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