Patent classifications
H01L2924/1441
Semiconductor package and method of manufacturing the semiconductor package
A semiconductor package including a core substrate, a semiconductor chip in the core substrate and having chip pads, a redistribution wiring layer covering a lower surface of the core substrate and including redistribution wirings electrically connected to the chip pads and a pair of capacitor pads exposed from an outer surface of the redistribution wiring layer, conductive pastes on the capacitor pads, respectively, and a capacitor via the conductive pastes and having first and second outer electrodes on the capacitor pads, respectively, may be provided. Each of the capacitor pads includes a pad pattern exposed from the outer surface of the redistribution wiring layer, and at least one via pattern at a lower portion of the pad pattern and electrically connected to at least one of the redistribution wirings. The via pattern is eccentric by a distance from a center line of the pad pattern.
THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE CONTAINING SELF-ALIGNED ISOLATION STRIPS AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME
A semiconductor structure includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and composite layers. Each of the composite layers includes a plurality of electrically conductive word line strips laterally extending along a first horizontal direction and a plurality of dielectric isolation strips laterally extending along the first horizontal direction and interlaced with the plurality of electrically conductive word line strips. Rows of memory openings are arranged along the first horizontal direction. Each row of memory openings vertically extends through each insulating layer within the alternating stack and one electrically conductive strip for each of the composite layers. Rows of memory opening fill structures are located within the rows of memory openings. Each of the memory opening fill structures includes a respective vertical stack of memory elements and a respective vertical semiconductor channel.
Neuromimetic network and related production method
The present invention relates to a neuromimetic network comprising a set of neurons and a set of synapses, at least one neuron comprising a first stack of superimposed layers, the first stack successively comprising: a first electrode, a first barrier layer made of an electrically insulating material, and a second electrode, the first electrode, the first barrier layer and the second electrode forming a first ferroelectric tunnel junction, at least one synapse comprising a second stack of superimposed layers, the second stack successively comprising: a third electrode, a second barrier layer made of an electrically insulating material, and a fourth electrode, the third electrode, the second barrier layer and the fourth electrode forming a second ferroelectric tunnel junction.
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND DATA STORAGE SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME
A semiconductor device includes a first non-volatile memory structure including a first stack structure including first conductive lines stacked and spaced apart from each other and a first vertical memory structure penetrating through the first stack structure; a second non-volatile memory structure including a second stack structure including second conductive lines stacked and spaced apart from each other and a second vertical memory structure penetrating through the second stack structure; and a peripheral circuit structure electrically connected to the first and second non-volatile memory structures. The peripheral circuit structure, the first non-volatile memory structure, and the second non-volatile memory structure vertically overlap each other. The first vertical memory structure includes a first data storage structure including a first data storage material layer. The second vertical memory structure includes a second data storage structure including a second data storage material layer that is different from the first data storage material layer.
3D stack of accelerator die and multi-core processor die
A packaging technology to improve performance of an AI processing system resulting in an ultra-high bandwidth system. An IC package is provided which comprises: a substrate; a first die on the substrate, and a second die stacked over the first die. The first die can be a first logic die (e.g., a compute chip, CPU, GPU, etc.) while the second die can be a compute chiplet comprising ferroelectric or paraelectric logic. Both dies can include ferroelectric or paraelectric logic. The ferroelectric/paraelectric logic may include AND gates, OR gates, complex gates, majority, minority, and/or threshold gates, sequential logic, etc. The IC package can be in a 3D or 2.5D configuration that implements logic-on-logic stacking configuration. The 3D or 2.5D packaging configurations have chips or chiplets designed to have time distributed or spatially distributed processing. The logic of chips or chiplets is segregated so that one chip in a 3D or 2.5D stacking arrangement is hot at a time.
Finer grain dynamic random access memory
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to dynamic random access memory (DRAM), such as finer grain DRAM, are described. For example, an array of memory cells in a memory device may be partitioned into regions. Each region may include a plurality of banks of memory cells. Each region may be associated with a data channel configured to communicate with a host device. In some examples, each channel of the array may include two or more data pins. The ratio of data pins per channel may be two or four in various examples. Other examples may include eight data pins per channel.
3D CHIP PACKAGE BASED ON VERTICAL-THROUGH-VIA CONNECTOR
A connector may include: a first substrate having a top surface, a bottom surface opposite to the top surface of the top substrate and a side surface joining an edge of the top surface of the first substrate and joining an edge of the bottom surface of the first substrate; a second substrate having a top surface, a bottom surface opposite to the top surface of the second substrate and a side surface joining an edge of the top surface of the second substrate and joining an edge of the bottom surface of the second substrate, wherein the side surface of the second substrate faces the side surface of the first substrate, wherein the top surfaces of the first and second substrates are coplanar with each other at a top of the connector and the bottom surfaces of the first and second substrates are coplanar with each other at a bottom of the connector; and a plurality of metal traces between, in a first horizontal direction, the side surfaces of the first and second substrates, wherein each of the plurality of metal traces has a top end at the top of the connector and a bottom end at the bottom of the connector.
Ferroelectric assemblies and methods of forming ferroelectric assemblies
Some embodiments include ferroelectric assemblies. Some embodiments include a capacitor which has ferroelectric insulative material between a first electrode and a second electrode. The capacitor also has a metal oxide between the second electrode and the ferroelectric insulative material. The metal oxide has a thickness of less than or equal to about 30 Å. Some embodiments include a method of forming an assembly. A first capacitor electrode is formed over a semiconductor-containing base. Ferroelectric insulative material is formed over the first electrode. A metal-containing material is formed over the ferroelectric insulative material. The metal-containing material is oxidized to form a metal oxide from the metal-containing material. A second electrode is formed over the metal oxide.
3D STACKED COMPUTE AND MEMORY WITH COPPER-TO-COPPER HYBRID BOND
Described is a packaging technology to improve performance of an AI processing system. An IC package is provided which comprises: a substrate; a first die on the substrate, and a second die stacked over the first die. The first die includes memory and the second die includes computational logic. The first die comprises DRAM having bit-cells. The memory of the first die may store input data and weight factors. The computational logic of the second die is coupled to the memory of the first die. In one example, the second die is an inference die that applies fixed weights for a trained model to an input data to generate an output. In one example, the second die is a training die that enables learning of the weights. Ultra high-bandwidth is changed by placing the first die below the second die. The two dies are wafer-to-wafer bonded or coupled via micro-bumps.
FERROEOLECTRIC MEMORIES
A ferroelectric memory is provided. The ferroelectric memory includes a first electrode, a second electrode opposite to the first electrode, a ferroelectric composite layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a first insulating layer disposed on one side of the ferroelectric composite layer.