3D InCites Member Spotlight: Why the Front End Needs the Back End To Win in AI

3D InCites Podcast

3D InCites Podcast
3D InCites Member Spotlight: Why the Front End Needs the Back End To Win in AI
Oct 23, 2025 Season 5 Episode 22
Francoise von Trapp/Multiple Guests

We recorded live at IMAPS with Siemens, ACM Research, Shellback Semiconductor, DECA, Nordson Electronic Solutions, and VIEW Micro Metrology to explore how AI demand, chiplets, and panels are reshaping advanced packaging. We dig into 3D BLOX, thermal and test roadblocks, green chemistries, metrology at scale, and why the back end now leads innovation. Listen to learn about:

• The Siemens–ASE collaboration on 3D BLOX models and VIPACK workflows
• Interoperable YAML-based packaging definitions moving toward IEEE standard
• 3D stacking to cut picojoules per bit amid thermal and test limits
• Panel-level packaging economics, sizes, and lack of standards
ACM Research updates in copper plating, bevel clean, frame clean, and compound deplating
• Batch spray versus single wafer trade-offs at Shellback Semiconductor
• HydrOzone green strip replacing legacy NMP in select flows
•The  DECA–SST deal for NVM chiplet package and SoC disaggregation
Nordson Electronic Solutions' panel strategy, IntelliJet 1.1, Vantage platform, and warpage control
VIEW Micro Metrology's high-throughput telecentric metrology across wafers and large panels

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Episode Artwork 3D InCites Member Spotlight: Why the Front End Needs the Back End To Win in AI 1:05:55 Episode Artwork First Impressions, Lasting Paths at IMAPS Symposium 2025 20:23 Episode Artwork IMAPS Symposium 2025: Chiplets vs. Dielets and the Truth about Co-Packaged Optics 45:56 Episode Artwork LIVE from Boston MA: Member Highlights from IMAPS Symposium 2024 1:24:06 Episode Artwork IMAPS Society Award Winners Talk About How Belonging to IMAPS Enriched Their Microelectronics Careers 20:30 Episode Artwork Live from IMAPS Symposium 2024: Updates on the NAPMP, Silicon Photonics and RDL Packaging 47:46 Episode Artwork Tarak Railkar and Benson Chan Preview IMAPS Symposium 2024 23:40 Episode Artwork Member Spotlight: Conversations from IMAPS 2023 1:14:50 Episode Artwork IMAPS Leaders Talk About DEI Past, Present and Future 51:30 Episode Artwork Conversations with the Next Generation of Advanced Packaging Experts 22:55 Episode Artwork IMAPS Symposium 2023 Keynote Chats: Qorvo's Kevin Anderson, IBM Research's Jeffrey Burns, and ASE's C.P. Hung 40:00 Episode Artwork 100th Episode: Talking with Erica Folk and Tarak Railkar About The 2023 IMAPS Symposium 29:55 Episode Artwork A Conversation with Beth Keser About Writing A Book on Advanced Fanout Wafer Level Packaging 21:35 Episode Artwork A Conversation about Addressing Material Challenges for Electric Mobility Technology 15:34 Episode Artwork The IMAPS DEI Panel Discusses the Difference between Equality and Equity 1:01:58 Episode Artwork Member Spotlight: Conversations from 2022 MAPS International Symposium 1:04:48 Episode Artwork Keynote Conversations from the 2022 IMAPS International Symposium 46:41 Episode Artwork A Conversation with Christine Whitman About Breaking Through The Semiconductor Glass Ceiling 24:21 Episode Artwork Conversations from the IMAPS International Symposium - Part Three 1:04:40 Episode Artwork Conversations from the IMAPS International Symposium - Part Two 36:29 Episode Artwork Conversations from the IMAPS International Symposium - Part 1 36:02