Leaning Into Interconnectology – Musings from IMAPS Symposium 2024
Call me crazy, but after spending three days at the 2024 International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS) Symposium in Boston learning about the latest industry trends and technology...
View ArticlePicking up the Pace of Panel-level Advanced Packaging at Onto Innovation
How A Collaborative Partnership Is Accelerating PLP Innovation Panel-level advanced packaging technologies have been in development for more than a decade. They began as a way to reduce costs and...
View ArticleMaking Connections at SEMICON Europa 2024
Let’s be honest. When we get home from a trade show like SEMICON Europa 2024, it’s not all the presentations that we remember. It’s the connections we’ve made – new and old – with industry colleagues...
View ArticleCatching Up on The Latest in Advanced Packaging at SEMICON Europa 2024
Now that imec’s Luc Van den hove declared advanced packaging is key to the advancement of semiconductors, everyone in the industry needs to catch up to those who have been following the course of these...
View ArticleThe 3D InCites Podcast Backtrack – 2024 in Review
Buzzsprout, the platform where the 3D InCites podcast lives, does a cool thing at the end of the year. It provides the podcast backtrack – a recap of your stats, including the top performing episodes....
View ArticleInterconnectology Saves the World!
In 2007, when I was managing editor at the now defunct Advanced Packaging Magazine, we went out on a limb in our January Industry Forecast to declare, as our cover story: Advanced Packaging Saves the...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Winners of the 2025 3D InCites Awards
As advanced interconnect and advanced packaging processes take the helm to drive advancements in next generation semiconductor devices, innovation and collaboration across the microelectronics supply...
View ArticleWill the CHIPS ACT Be “DOGE’d?” And Other Musing from IMAPS Device Packaging...
There was a lot to be enthusiastic about at IMAPS Device Packaging 2025 (DPC2025). We presented the 2025 3D InCites Awards to eight deserving winners. We donated $70K to the IMAPS Microelectronics...
View ArticleA Tribute to Paul Werbaneth: Friend and Colleague
Earlier this month, in the middle of the IMAPS Device Packaging Conference Welcome Reception, I got an upsetting text from a fellow SemiSister, Jane Evans-Ryan, founder and principal of Genuity PR,...
View ArticleArizona: The Epicenter of Semiconductor Resurgence
Katie Hobbs, Governor, Arizona Whether we start calling it Chip Canyon, the Silicon Zone, or Silicon Diyógí (say Dare-yo-ghee), it looks like Arizona is on track for becoming the epicenter of...
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