The present application discloses a semiconductor chip, a semiconductor device and an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection method for a semiconductor device. The semiconductor chip includes an electrical contact, an application circuit, and an ESD protection unit. The application circuit performs operations according to a one signal received by the electrical contact. The ESD protection unit is coupled to the electrical contact. The capacitance of the ESD protection unit is adjustable.

An integrated circuit package includes first and second dies bonded to each other. The first die includes first die pads over a first device, first bonding pads over the first die pads, a first conductive via disposed between and electrically connected to a first one of the first die pads and a first one of the first bonding pads, and a first thermal via disposed between a second one of the first die pads and a second one of the first bonding pads and electrically insulated from the second one of the first die pads or the second one of the first bonding pads. The second die includes second bonding pads. The first one of the first bonding pads is connected to a first one of the second bonding pads. The second one of the first bonding pads is connected to a second one of the second bonding pads.

A method for forming a thermal conduction structure includes: a substrate is provided, at least a dielectric layer being formed on the substrate; a Through Silicon Via (TSV) and at least one silicon blind hole are formed, where the at least one silicon blind hole is located on at least one side of the TSV, the TSV penetrates through the substrate and the dielectric layer, and each silicon blind hole does not penetrate through the substrate.

A die bonding method includes obtaining information about a quality grade of each die of a plurality of dies placed at a wafer, picking up a first die among the plurality of dies from the wafer, identifying a bonding location of a plurality of bonding locations from a substrate according to a quality grade of the first die, and bonding the first die to the bonding location of the substrate.

A semiconductor package including a first substrate including a first bump pad and a filling compensation film (FCF) around the first bump pad; a second substrate facing the first substrate and including a second bump pad; a bump structure (BS) in contact with the first bump pad and the second bump pad; and a non-conductive film (NCF) surrounding the BS and between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the NCF covers an upper surface and an edge of the FCF.

A semiconductor package includes a second semiconductor chip disposed on a first semiconductor chip. The first semiconductor chip includes a first semiconductor substrate, a through via, and a lower pad disposed on the through via. The lower pad includes a first segment and a second segment connected thereto. The first segment overlaps the through via. The second segment is disposed on an edge region of the first segment. The second segment has an annular shape. The second semiconductor chip includes a second semiconductor substrate, an upper pad disposed on a bottom surface of the second semiconductor substrate, and a connection terminal disposed between the upper and lower pads. The second segment at least partially surrounds a lateral surface of the upper pad. A level of a top surface of the second segment is higher than that of an uppermost portion of the connection terminal.

An embedded component stack includes a first metal layer, a first dielectric layer disposed on the first metal layer, a second metal layer disposed on the first dielectric layer, a first component disposed and embedded entirely within the first dielectric layer and entirely between the first metal layer and the second metal layer, a second dielectric layer disposed on the second metal layer, and a second component disposed on or embedded entirely within the second dielectric layer. The first and second components can be bare, unpackaged dies disposed over the metal layers by micro-transfer printing. The metal layers can be patterned and can be electrically connected to the components. The first component can be rotated with respect to the second component. Multiple components can be embedded in one or more of the dielectric layers.

A system and method of providing high bandwidth and low latency memory architecture solutions for next generation processors is disclosed. The package contains a substrate, a memory device embedded in the substrate via EMIB processes and a processor disposed on the substrate partially over the embedded memory device. The I/O pads of the processor and memory device are vertically aligned to minimize the distance therebetween and electrically connected through EMIB uvias. An additional memory device is disposed on the substrate partially over the embedded memory device or on the processor. I/O signals are routed using a redistribution layer on the embedded memory device or an organic VHD redistribution layer formed over the embedded memory device when the additional memory device is laterally adjacent to the processor and the I/O pads of the processor and additional memory device are vertically aligned when the additional memory device is on the processor.

Semiconductor devices including vertically-stacked combination memory devices and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. The vertically-stacked combination memory devices include at least one volatile memory die and at least one non-volatile memory die stacked on top of each other. The corresponding stack may be attached to a controller die that is configured to provide interface for the attached volatile and non-volatile memory dies.

In accordance with the disclosure, an inductor may be formed over a semiconductor substrate of one or both dies in a face-to-face die arrangement while reducing the parasitic capacitance between the inductor and the adjacent die. In disclosed embodiments, a semiconductor device may include a void (e.g., an air gap) between the inductor and the adjacent die to reduce the parasitic capacitance between the inductor and the adjacent die. The void may be formed in the die that includes the inductor and/or the adjacent die. In some respects, the void may be etched in interface layers (e.g., comprising bump pads and dielectric material) between the semiconductor dies, and may extend along the length of the inductor.