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wafer scale integration
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wafer scale integration
The evolution in semiconductor technology that builds a gigantic circuit on an entire wafer. Just as the integrated circuit eliminated cutting apart thousands of transistors from the wafer only to wire them back again on circuit boards, wafer scale integration eliminates cutting apart the chips. All the circuits for an entire computer are designed onto one super-sized chip.

Thus far, wafer scale integration has not come to fruition (see Trilogy); however, chip packaging such as the multichip module (MCM) and multichip package (MCP), in which several chips are connected closely together in a single housing, has become widely used.


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Among the topics are low-temperature bonding for optical microsystems applications, three-dimensional wafer-scale integration for radio frequency and digital applications, thick bonded silicon-on-insulator wafers with poly-silicon interlayer for gettering metal impurities, and an oxide-free silicon-to-silicon carbide hetero-bond.
Producers are quickly moving toward wafer-scale integration and increasing use of flip chip, ball grid array and chip scale packaging technologies.
Achieving a paradigm shift in the design and manufacture of MEMS sensors, InvenSense uses its patented Nasiri-Fabrication process for wafer-scale integration that leapfrogs the cost issues faced by other MEMS sensor makers.
 
 
 
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