A semiconductor package and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor package includes a first device die and a second device die; an encapsulant, laterally encapsulating the first and second device dies; a bridge die, electrically connected to the first and second device dies and establishing communication between the first and second device dies; and bonding layers, between the first and second device dies and the bridge die, and including a first die bonding layer and a second die bonding layer respectively disposed upon the first device die and the second device die, and a third die bonding layer disposed upon the bridge die. Each of the bonding layers includes a polymer layer and metallic features embedded in the polymer layer.

A memory device includes a memory die bonded to a logic die. A logic die that is bonded to a memory die via a wafer-on-wafer bonding process can receive signals indicative of input data from a global data bus of the memory die and through a bond of the logic die and memory die. The logic die can also receive signals indicative of kernel data from local input/output (LIO) lines of the memory die and through the bond. The logic die can perform a plurality of operations at a plurality of vector-vector (VV) units utilizing the signals indicative of input data and the signals indicative of kernel data. The inputs and the outputs to the VV units can be configured based on a mode of the logic die.

According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a bonding structure for forming at least one electrical connection between an optoelectronic component and a photonic substrate. The bonding structure comprises a pillar structure between the optoelectronic component and the photonic substrate, and a bonding layer comprising bonding material on the pillar structure. The pillar structure for at least one individual electrical connection comprises at least two portions and at least one gap between the portions for receiving extra bonding material of the bonding layer.

A semiconductor package that include first and second semiconductor chips bonded together, wherein the first semiconductor chip includes a first semiconductor substrate, a first semiconductor element layer and a first wiring structure sequentially stacked on a first surface of the first semiconductor substrate, first connecting pads and first test pads on the first wiring structure, and first front-side bonding pads, which are connected to the first connecting pads, wherein the second semiconductor chip includes a second semiconductor substrate, a second semiconductor element layer and a second wiring structure sequentially stacked on a third surface of the second semiconductor substrate, and first back-side bonding pads bonded to the first front-side bonding pads on the fourth surface of the second semiconductor substrate, and wherein the first test pads are not electrically connected to the second semiconductor chip.

One aspect of the present disclosure pertains to an integrated (IC) structure. The IC structure includes a semiconductor substrate; an interconnect structure formed over the substrate; and a redistribution layer (RDL) structure formed over the interconnect structure. The RDL structure includes: a RDL pad portion having a pad via array with multiple vias landing on a first top metal line of the interconnect structure; a RDL signal routing portion having a signal routing via landing on a second top metal line of the interconnect structure; and a RDL top portion over the RDL pad portion and the RDL signal routing portion. The multiple vias of the pad via array include a block via and an adjacent sacrificial via, the block via having a block via width, the sacrificial via having a sacrificial via width, and the block via width is greater than the sacrificial via width.

A semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor chip having a first substrate, a first insulating layer on the first substrate, and a plurality of first bonding pads on the first insulating layer, and having a flat upper surface by an upper surface of the first insulating layer and upper surfaces of the plurality of first bonding pads; and a second semiconductor chip on the upper surface of the first semiconductor chip and having a second substrate, a second insulating layer below the second substrate and in contact with the first insulating layer, and a plurality of second bonding pads on the second insulating layer and in contact with the first bonding pads, respectively, wherein the first insulating layer includes an insulating interfacial layer in contact with the second insulating layer, embedded in the first insulating layer, and spaced apart from the plurality of first bonding pads.

A memory device includes a memory die bonded to a logic die via a wafer-on-wafer bond. A controller of the memory device that is coupled to the memory die can activate a row of the memory die. Responsive to activating the row, a sense amplifier stripe of the memory die can latch a first plurality of signals. A transceiver can route a second plurality of signals from the sense amplifier stripe to the logic die.

An electronic device includes (i) a substrate having a first coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE), (ii) an integrated circuit (IC) die formed on the substrate and including first metal layers having a first thickness, and second metal layers having a second thickness, greater than the first thickness, the second metal layers have a second CTE, greater than the first CTE, the first and second metal layers are configured to induce, in response to an increase in a temperature of the electronic device, a first stress that acts to cause a warpage at least in the substrate, and (iii) a dielectric layer having a third CTE less than the first and second CTEs, is (a) disposed on the second metal layers, and (b) configured to induce at least in the substrate, in response to the increase in the temperature, a second stress that compensates for at least part of the warpage.

Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device that includes a semiconductor die and a substrate including a first surface and a second surface. The substrate includes a conductive circuit and an insulative material over the conductive circuit. The semiconductor die is attached to the second surface. The semiconductor device further includes an interconnect joint structure in the substrate creating a capture pad including a middle copper layer, an adjacent top nickel layer, and an adjacent bottom nickel layer. A method for making a semiconductor device is further disclosed.

An integrated circuit (IC) using a copper-alloy based hybrid bond is provided. The IC comprises a pair of semiconductor structures vertically stacked upon one another. The pair of semiconductor structures comprise corresponding dielectric layers and corresponding metal features arranged in the dielectric layers. The metal features comprise a copper alloy having copper and a secondary metal. The IC further comprises a hybrid bond arranged at an interface between the semiconductor structures. The hybrid bond comprises a first bond bonding the dielectric layers together and a second bond bonding the metal features together. The second bond comprises voids arranged between copper grains of the metal features and filled by the secondary metal. A method for bonding a pair of semiconductor structures together using the copper-alloy based hybrid bond is also provided.