GlobalFoundries
A year ago [see IFTLE 102, "3.5D Interposers tosomeday replace PWBs” - TSMC; GF engaging with 3D customers; Intel predictsConsolidation"] GlobalFoundries (GF) CTO Bartlett announced
the installation of TSV production tools for the company's 20nm technology
platform and announced that "the first full flow silicon with TSVs was
expected to start running at Fab 8 (Saratoga NY) in Q3 2012 with mass
production expected in 2014 and the 2.5D
line ( their 65 nm Fab 7 line in Singapore) had a similar time schedule as the 3D line in the
United States."
Last week,
GlobalFoundries announced its first functional 20nm silicon wafers with
integrated through-silicon vias (TSVs). At its Fab 8 facility in N.Y., the
silicon foundry vendor manufactured TSV test wafers using their 20nm-LPM
process technology, and at Fab 7 in Singapore, the company demonstrated a 65nm 32mm x 26mm
interposer test vehicle for 2.5D chips. Both 2.5D and 3D are set for a 20nm
introduction, full qualification by next year and non-early adopter production
in 2015.They are using a 6 x 60 um vias middle, copper TSV as shown in the figure below. Interposer size is limited by reticle size i.e. 25-30 mm.
Dave McCann, VP of packaging technology at
GlobalFoundries, reports that GF is taping out a 3D design for an undisclosed
customer and is working with two others on 2.5D. "2.5D is already here," he
added. Several 2.5D test
structures were shown that were collaborations with Amkor.
While foundries
TSMC and Samsung [see IFTLE 133, "SEMI ISS 2013 Comments from Samsung, GF,Intel and others"] are both offering turnkey solutions, GlobalFoundries and UMC are supporting a
partnering ecosystem where they will handle the traditional front-end steps and
the "via creation" process and then will hand off the traditional backend steps
such as temporary bonding/debonding, grinding, assembly and test to traditional
packaging houses such as ASE, Amkor SCP and SPIL.
A year ago, GF
announced hopes of shipping 28 and 20nm 3D chip stacks in 2014. Now, GF states
only the 20nm chips will be used in stacks and they may not ship in volume till
2015.
IFTLE must ask whether these Haswell "requirements" can be met with the
newly described LPDDR3 and LPDDR4 solutions, which do not use TSV technology.
UMC / STATS Update
A few months ago, IFTLE reported
that foundry UMC and OSAT partner STATSChipPAC (SCP) had announced
a jointly developed TSV-enabled 3D IC chip stack consisting of a Wide I/O
memory test chip stacked upon a TSV-embedded 28nm processor test chip below). This was developed under their open ecosystem
collaboration using UMC’s foundry capability and STATS ChipPAC’s packaging
capabilities. [See IFTLE 135, "UMC / SCP Memory on Logic"]
Several
readers have reported that this structure (above) is from a TI OMAP 5 platform
application processor and that the program with UMC and SCP was terminated when
TI dropped out of the application processor market. (Thats probably why the xsect image was made available!)
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