EETimes: Sematech adds Six Companies to its 3-D team

According to the report in EETimes, the group of companies contributing to the  3-D enablement program at SEMATECH has just grown by six.

New to the group are:

• Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (ASE)
• Altera Corp.
• Analog Devices Inc. (ADI),
• LSI Corp.
• On Semiconductor Corp.
• Qualcomm Inc. 
  

It's interesting to see Qualcomm signing up to this effort.  They've been a prominent driver for a lot of the existing work to bring TSV based 3-D into production.  I'm sure that the big "Q" will benefit from standardization in this area.

Existing members include:

• Globalfoundries
• Hewlett Packard
• Hynix
• IBM
• Intel
• Samsung
• UMC

I hope that 13 isn't an unlucky number.  I wonder why TSMC doesn't want to play?  Could they be brewing something up on their own?  Could TSMC be taking the position that standardization will lead to commoditization?

- Post by Dean Stevens, Monolithic 3D Evangelist