A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element layer including a semiconductor substrate including a bump area and a dummy bump area. A TSV structure is in the bump area and vertically extends through the semiconductor substrate, a first topmost line is in the bump area and on the TSV structure and electrically connected to the TSV structure, a signal bump is in the bump area and has a first width in a first direction and is electrically connected to the TSV structure via the first topmost line, a second topmost line is in the dummy bump area and has the same vertical level as a vertical level of the first topmost line and extends in the first direction, and a dummy bump is in the dummy bump area and contacts the second topmost line and has a second width in the first direction larger than the first width.

A multi-die integrated circuit device and a method of fabricating the multi-die integrated circuit device involve a substrate. Two or more dice include components that implement functionality of the multi-die integrated circuit. The components include logic gates. The multi-die integrated circuit device also includes a spacer disposed between the substrate and each of the two or more dice. Each of the two or more dice makes direct electrical contact with the substrate without making direct electrical contact with the spacer through holes in the spacer.

Disclosed embodiments include composite-bridge die-to-die interconnects that are on a die side of an integrated-circuit package substrate and that contacts two IC dice and a passive device that is in a molding material, where the molding material also contacts the two IC dice.

Disclosed herein are microelectronic structures including bridges, as well as related assemblies and methods. In some embodiments, a microelectronic structure may include a substrate and a bridge.

Embodiments described herein may be related to apparatuses, processes, and techniques related to a vertical high-speed bridge placed within a BGA field of a microelectronic package. In embodiments, the bridge is used for high-speed signaling and may include plated through hole vias that are at a smaller pitch than the pitch of the BGA field. In embodiments, the vertical high-speed bridge may be constructed from a glass wafer or a glass panel using a laser-assisted etching of glass interconnects process. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Interconnecting a first chip and a second chip by a bridge member includes a chip handler for handling the first chip and the second chip. Each of the first chip and the second chip has a first surface including a first set of terminals and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The chip handler has an opening and at least one support surface for supporting the first surfaces of the first chip and the second chip when the first chip and the second chip are mounted to the chip handler. A chip support member supports the first chip and the second chip from the second surfaces, and a bridge handler is provided for inserting the bridge member through the opening of the chip handler and for placing the bridge member onto the first sets of terminals of the first chip and the second chip.

Embodiments of a system and methods for localized high density substrate routing are generally described herein. In one or more embodiments an apparatus includes a medium, first and second circuitry elements, an interconnect element, and a dielectric layer. The medium can include low density routing therein. The interconnect element can be embedded in the medium, and can include a plurality of electrically conductive members therein, the electrically conductive member can be electrically coupled to the first circuitry element and the second circuitry element. The interconnect element can include high density routing therein. The dielectric layer can be over the interconnect die, the dielectric layer including the first and second circuitry elements passing therethrough.

A package comprising a first integrated device comprising a first plurality of under bump metallization interconnects; a second integrated device comprising a second plurality of under bump metallization interconnects; a bridge coupled to the first integrated device and the second integrated device; an encapsulation layer at least partially encapsulating the first integrated device, the second integrated device, and the bridge; a metallization portion located over the first integrated device, the second integrated device, the bridge and the encapsulation layer, where the metallization portion includes at least one dielectric layer and a plurality of metallization interconnects; a first plurality of pillar interconnects coupled to the first plurality of under bump metallization interconnects, the first plurality of interconnects located in the encapsulation layer; and a second plurality of pillar interconnects coupled to the second plurality of under bump metallization interconnects, the second plurality of pillar interconnects located in the encapsulation layer.

Multiple component package structures are described in which an interposer chiplet is integrated to provide fine routing between components. In an embodiment, the interposer chiplet and a plurality of conductive vias are encapsulated in an encapsulation layer. A first plurality of terminals of the first and second components may be in electrical connection with the plurality of conductive pillars and a second plurality of terminals of first and second components may be in electrical connection with the interposer chiplet.

A device and method for providing enhanced bridge structures is disclosed. A set of conducting and insulating layers are deposited and lithographically processed. The conducting layers have uFLS routing. A bridge with uFLS contacts and die disposed on the underlying structure such that the die are connected with the uFLS contacts and uFLS routing. For core-based structures, the layers are formed after the bridge is placed on the underlying structure and the die connected to the bridge through intervening conductive layers. For coreless structures, the layers are formed over the bridge and carrier, which is removed prior to bonding the die to the bridge, and the die bonded directly to the bridge.