Green future: IC packaging opportunities abound

Abstract

Today, as global environmental regulations are being tightened, both IC and package technologies are also becoming far more complicated. More Moore and more than Moore, which manifest themselves in system-on-chip (SoC) and system-in-a-package (SiP), respectively, are being used more in combination to meet the ever-more-stringent cost and time-to-market requirements of consumer products with more functions built in them. In this presentation, I will review the challenges and opportunities to IC packaging as a direct outcome of the above trends to ensure SoC and SiP based IC packages meet the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations.