A method for manufacturing connection structure, the method includes arranging conductive particles and a first composite on a first electrode located on a first surface of a first member, arranging a second composite on the first electrode and a region other than the first electrode of the first surface, ranging the first surface and a second surface of a second member where a second electrode is located, so that the first electrode and the second electrode are opposed to each other, pressing the first member and the second member, and curing the first composite and the second composite.

A semiconductor device of the ball grid array (BGA) type, the device having an electrode, and a process of forming the electrode are disclosed. The electrode includes an insulating film, a seed layer on the insulating film, a mound metal on the insulating film and an interconnection on the seed layer. The mound metal surrounds the seed layer without forming any gap therebetween. The interconnection, which is formed by electroless plating, is apart from the insulating film with the mound metal as an extension barrier for the plating.

Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide interconnect structures and components for coupling various carriers, printed circuit board (PCB) components, integrated circuit (IC) dice, and the like, using tall and/or fine pitch physical connections. Multiple layers of conductive structures or materials are arranged to form the interconnect structures and components. Nonwettable barriers may be used with one or more of the layers to form a shape, including a pitch of one or more of the layers.

Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide interconnect structures and components for coupling various carriers, printed circuit board (PCB) components, integrated circuit (IC) dice, and the like, using tall and/or fine pitch physical connections. Multiple layers of conductive structures or materials are arranged to form the interconnect structures and components. Nonwettable barriers may be used with one or more of the layers to form a shape, including a pitch of one or more of the layers.

A semiconductor package is disclosed including a number of stacked semiconductor die, electrically connected to each other with wire bonds. The stacked semiconductor die are provided in a mold compound such that a spacing exists between a top die in the die stack and a surface of the mold compound. The wire bonds to the top die may be provided in the spacing. An RDL pad is affixed to the surface of the mold compound. Columns of bumps may be formed on the die bond pads of the top die in the die stack to electrically couple the RDL pad to the die stack across the spacing.

An integrated circuit package and a system including the integrated circuit package as well as a process for assembling the integrated circuit package are provided to improve integrated circuit power delivery. The integrated circuit package includes a first die having a plurality of pads formed in the first die and exposed on a top surface of the first die, at least one post on the first die, and a substrate including one or more redistribution layers. Each post in the at least one post spans at least two pads on the first die utilized for power distribution, and the first die is connected to the substrate via the at least one post.

An integrated circuit package and a system including the integrated circuit package as well as a process for assembling the integrated circuit package are provided to improve integrated circuit power delivery. The integrated circuit package includes a first die having a plurality of pads formed in the first die and exposed on a top surface of the first die, at least one post on the first die, and a substrate including one or more redistribution layers. Each post in the at least one post spans at least two pads on the first die utilized for power distribution, and the first die is connected to the substrate via the at least one post.

A semiconductor structure comprising a carrier wafer and a device wafer. The carrier wafer comprises trenches sized and configured to receive conductive pillars of the device wafer. The carrier wafer and the device wafer are fusion bonded together and back side processing effected on the device wafer. The device wafer may be released from the carrier wafer by one or more of mechanically cleaving, thermally cleaving, and mechanically separating. Methods of forming the semiconductor structure including the carrier wafer and the device wafer are disclosed.

A microelectronic package has a microelectronic element overlying or mounted to a first surface of a substrate and substantially rigid conductive posts projecting above the first surface or projecting above a second surface of the substrate remote therefrom. Conductive elements exposed at a surface of the substrate opposite the surface above which the conductive posts project are electrically interconnected with the microelectronic element. An encapsulant overlies at least a portion of the microelectronic element and the surface of the substrate above which the conductive posts project, the encapsulant having a recess or a plurality of openings each permitting at least one electrical connection to be made to at least one conductive post. At least some conductive posts are electrically insulated from one another and adapted to simultaneously carry different electric potentials. In particular embodiments, the openings in the encapsulant at least partially expose conductive masses joined to posts, fully expose top surfaces of posts and partially expose edge surfaces of posts, or may only partially expose top surfaces of posts.

The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device including: a substrate including, in a central portion the substrate, n first element formation regions having a rectangular shape and are arrayed along a first direction, and n+m second element formation regions arrayed along the first direction adjacent to the first element formation regions; plural projecting electrodes formed at each of the first and the second element formation regions; and plural dummy projecting electrodes formed, at a peripheral portion, overlapping a triangle defined by a first edge of the first element formation region that forms a boundary between the first element formation region and the peripheral portion, and a second edge of the second element formation region that is adjacent to a corner of the first edge and that forms a boundary between the second element formation region and the peripheral portion.