A packaged semiconductor device and a method and apparatus for forming the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes bonding a device die to a first surface of a substrate; depositing an adhesive on the first surface of the substrate; depositing a thermal interface material on a surface of the device die opposite the substrate; placing a lid over the device die and the substrate, the lid contacting the adhesive and the thermal interface material; applying a clamping force to the lid and the substrate; and while applying the clamping force, curing the adhesive and the thermal interface material.

A semiconductor package includes a package substrate including a die attachment region, a semiconductor die attached to the die attachment region, and a die over-shift indicating pattern disposed on or in the package substrate and spaced apart from the die attachment region. The die over-shift indicating pattern is used as a reference pattern for obtaining a shifted distance of the semiconductor die.

A method for forming a chip package structure is provided. The method includes partially removing a first redistribution layer to form an alignment trench in the first redistribution layer. The alignment trench surrounds a bonding portion of the first redistribution layer. The method includes forming a liquid layer over the bonding portion. The method includes disposing a chip structure over the liquid layer, wherein a first width of the bonding portion is substantially equal to a second width of the chip structure. The method includes evaporating the liquid layer. The chip structure is in direct contact with the bonding portion after the liquid layer is evaporated.

In a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, a plurality of first provisional fixing portions are supplied on a front surface of a substrate such that the plurality of first provisional fixing portions are spaced from each other and thus dispersed. A first solder layer processed into a plate to be a first soldering portion is disposed in contact with the plurality of first provisional fixing portions. A semiconductor chip is disposed on the first solder layer. In addition a conductive member in the form of a flat plate is disposed thereon via a second provisional fixing portion and a second solder layer. A reflow process is performed to solder the substrate, the semiconductor chip and the conductive member together.

A semiconductor device includes a silicon die having a metal material coating applied on one side, a lead frame having a mounting pad having an area smaller than an area of the silicon die, the silicon die being mounted on the lead frame via the mounting pad, and an etched area filled with a non-conductive mold compound on a side of the lead frame that comes into contact with an end of the silicon die along an edge of the silicon die. A volume of epoxy material is dispensed onto the lead frame along a length of the metal material coating to form a fillet weld on a side of the silicon die configured to adhere the silicon die to the lead frame and to prevent the metal material coating from coming into contact with the lead frame.

A 4D device comprises a 2D multi-core logic and a 3D memory stack connected through the memory stack sidewall using a fine pitch T&J connection. The 3D memory in the stack is thinned from the original wafer thickness to no remaining Si. A tongue and groove device at the memory wafer top and bottom surfaces allows an accurate stack alignment. The memory stack also has micro-channels on the backside to allow fluid cooling. The memory stack is further diced at the fixed clock-cycle distance and is flipped on its side and re-assembled on to a template into a pseudo-wafer format. The top side wall of the assembly is polished and built with BEOL to fan-out and use the T&J fine pitch connection to join to the 2D logic wafer. The other side of the memory stack is polished, fanned-out, and bumped with C4 solder. The invention also comprises a process for manufacturing the device. In another aspect, the invention comprises a 4D process and device for over 50 greater than 2D memory density per die and an ultra high density memory.

A semiconductor device includes a wiring board and a chip-shaped semiconductor element flip-chip mounted on the wiring board, in which a plurality of solder bumps and a plurality of protrusions including an insulating material are provided on a surface of the chip-shaped semiconductor element on a side facing the wiring board, and the chip-shaped semiconductor element is arranged so as to face the wiring board via an underfilling material in a state in which the underfilling material having a characteristic that viscosity decreases with an increase in temperature is applied to the wiring board and then subjected to reflow treatment to be flip-chip mounted on the wiring board.

A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate having a surface. The semiconductor device includes a conductive pad over a portion of the surface. The conductive pad has a curved top surface, and a width of the conductive pad increases toward the substrate. The semiconductor device includes a device over the conductive pad. The semiconductor device includes a solder layer between the device and the conductive pad. The solder layer covers the curved top surface of the conductive pad, and the conductive pad extends into the solder layer.

An imaging module of the invention includes: an image-sensing device that has a light-receiving face, a terminal surface located on an opposite side of the light-receiving face, and a plurality of image-sensing terminals provided on the terminal surface; a support that has a first end disposed on the terminal surface, a second end disposed on an opposite side of the first end, a side face disposed between the first end and the second end, and a guide disposed on the side face so as to correspond to positions of the image-sensing terminals and that is formed of an insulator; a coaxial cable including a conductor disposed on the guide; and solder that electrically connects the conductor to an image-sensing terminal corresponding to the conductor on the guide.

A device includes a base substrate with a sensor component arranged thereon; a spacer layer on the base substrate, wherein the spacer layer is structured in order to predefine a cavity region, in which the sensor component is arranged in an exposed fashion on the base substrate, and a DAF tape element (DAF=Die-Attach-Film) on a stack element, wherein the DAF tape element mechanically fixedly connects the stack element to the spacer layer arranged on the base substrate and to obtain the cavity region.