Tag Archives: Wide I/O

Invensas to detail POP interconnect to rival Wide I/O with as many as 1200 interconnections between IC packages

Later this week, Invensas will detail its new BVA (bond via array) package-on-package (POP) interconnect that can achieve 1200 electrical connections between chip packages without the use of 3D die assembly. Information on the technology will be contained in a … Continue reading

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A possible roadmap for Wide I/O that leads to 2Tbps of SDRAM memory bandwidth—per device

Cadence Product Marketing Director Marc Greenberg—one of the speakers at last week’s EDPS conference held in Monterey, California—spoke about why the Wide I/O SDRAM is probably the “killer app” that unleashes 3D IC assembly into the mainstream. Richard Goering has … Continue reading

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Is Wide I/O SDRAM a disruptive technology? Signs say yes according to new EETimes article

A new article about Wide I/O and 3D IC assembly published in EETimes brings some additional technical information to light. The article was written by Marc Greenberg and Samta Bansal, both from Cadence, and it contains both a review of … Continue reading

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Big week for Wide I/O: JEDEC publishes spec while Elpida ships sample 4Gbit parts

Wide I/O jumped closer to being a reality this week with two major announcements. On December 28th, Elpida announced that they were making sample shipments of 4Gbit Wide-IO. (See “Let’s start the new year with a bang! Elpida ships 4Gbit … Continue reading

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Let’s start the new year with a bang! Elpida ships 4Gbit Wide I/O and LPDDR3 SDRAM samples

Two DRAM categories that will shake up mobile product design this year are Wide I/O and LPDDR3. Elpida announced just at the end of the year that it has started shipping samples of 4Gbit SDRAMs with both interface types based … Continue reading

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