MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

MATERIALS & EQUIPMENT

APNT's new thermal interface materials meet power semiconductors' reqs

May 23, 2012 Applied Nanotech Holdings Inc. uncrated the THERCOBOND family of highly thermally conductive bonding and printed materials for power electronics and photonic...

Indium expands electronics materials manufacturing with new facility in NY

May 22, 2012 Indium Corporation acquired a manufacturing facility in Rome, NY, to expand its production capacities of indium-, gallium-, germanium-, and tin-based materia...

Dow Electronic Materials promotes Muni to direct advanced packaging products

May 21, 2012 Bhavesh Muni took the helm as global business director for the Advanced Packaging Technologies business of Dow Electronic Materials, covering Dow's semicondu...

IC packaging substrates heading for $8.67B in 2012

May 18, 2012 In 2012, the global IC substrate market will reach a value of USD8.67 billion, according to Research in China’s “Global and Chinese IC Substrate Industry Rep...

Wire bonder debuts with Cu wire optimization, automatic rethreading from ASM Pacific Technology

May 16, 2012 The ASM iHawk Xpress Opto Wire Bonder from backend semiconductor assembly equipment supplier ASM Pacific Technology offers new innovations in transport, copp...
Architect plans for Kulicke & Soffa's new Singapore headquarters.

Kulicke & Soffa expands Singapore HQ, bolsters bonder tool R&D and manufacturing

May 16, 2012 Kulicke & Soffa broke ground on its Singapore global headquarters expansion, near the current leased headquarters location. A state-of-the-art facility i...

PACKAGING INDUSTRY NEWS

Direct chip bonding, all-SiC design increase power density in Mitsubishi Electric inverter

May 23, 2012 Mitsubishi Electric Corporation developed a prototype forced-air-cooled three-phase 400V output inverter with all-silicon carbi...
Invensas PoP semiconductor packaging technology.

Invensas debuts high-I/O PoP semiconductor packaging design

May 22, 2012 Invensas Corporation, Tessera subsidiary, debuted bond via array (BVA) technology, an ultra-high-I/O PoP semiconductor packagin...

Amkor plans semiconductor packaging and test facility in Korea

May 19, 2012 Amkor Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:AMKR) plans to build a state-of-the-art factory and global research and development center in the...

Silicon Labs offers bare die from 1 wafer and up

May 16, 2012 Mixed-signal IC maker Silicon Laboratories Inc. (NASDAQ: SLAB) introduced a microcontroller (MCU) die sales program with a mini...
Dr. Phil Garrou

"3.5D interposer technology could someday replace PCBs" -- TSMC's Doug Yu

May 15, 2012 TSMC’s Doug Yu challenged the current nomenclature and pronounced that interposer technology should be called “3.5D” instead of...
Figure. CMOS image sensor growth through 2016. SOURCE: IC Insights.

CMOS image sensor suppliers ramp up 300mm capacity

May 11, 2012 CMOS image sensors (CIS) are breaking sales records again, after several years without upward momentum, reports IC Insights. Ne...

FINANCIALS

PACKAGING WHITE PAPERS

Keeping Packages Cool and Reliability High

Ever-increasing functionality and ever-decreasing device footprints have presented semiconductor packaging manufacturers with quite a dilemma: how to manage ...
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PACKAGING WEBCASTS

PVD Solutions for Next Generation MEMS and Sensors

As the industry is incorporating more MEMS devices with integrated magnetic sensors, they are encountering challenges that cannot be overcome with ...
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FREE WEBCAST: Lens Tilt in Small Auto-Focus Cameras

This webinar will provide an introduction to miniature auto-focus camera technology and voice coil motors.

FREE WEBCAST: Light and Color Measurement of Today's LED Technology

The seminar is an ideal fit for anyone interested in characterizing and communicating the light and color properties of LED’s accurately.

PACKAGING VIDEOS

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PACKAGING EVENTS

ESTC 2012

September 17, 2012 - September 20, 2012

Global Interposer Technology Workshop at GA Tech

November 14, 2012 - November 16, 2012
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