SINGAPORE, Nov. 13,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Kulicke and Soffa
Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: KLIC) ("Kulicke & Soffa",
"K&S", "we" or the "Company"), in collaboration with ROHM Co.,
Ltd (TYO: 6963) ("ROHM"), a producer of a wide-range of
semiconductor devices, announces a new path to hybrid bonding
leveraging Kulicke & Soffa's leading Fluxless
Thermo-Compression (FTC) process.
Kulicke & Soffa's recently released APTURA™ FTC system,
combined with technology innovations from ROHM, have successfully
enhanced chip-to-wafer hybrid bonding with the innovative
copper-first – CuFirst™ – hybrid solution. While existing
die-to-wafer hybrid bonding capacity can enable significant I/O
density – yield challenges, cost of ownership, and front-end
processing requirements are limiting the adoption rate and market
potential of existing hybrid solutions.
The CuFirst hybrid solution, utilizing the K&S APTURA FTC
platform, addresses these production limitations and challenges.
With the emerging CuFirst process, the copper interconnect is
bonded first – leveraging the APTURA platform's FTC capability –
then the dielectric (SiOx) connection is made once the device
returns to room temperature. This CuFirst process is expected to
support higher yields, lower infrastructure costs and better cost
of ownership compared to conventional die-to-wafer hybrid bonding.
In addition to CuFirst hybrid, the APTURA FTC system also supports
traditional flux- and fluxless-based thermo-compression bonding
(TCB), including the direct bonding of copper-to-copper pillars –
down to an 8µm pitch. This system can also accommodate die-to-die,
die-to-substrate, or die-to-wafer configurations comprehensively
addressing a broad range of material handling and end-application
requirements.
"Through ongoing R&D commitments and collaborations, we have
become a critical enabler supporting the industry's transition to a
chiplet ecosystem. Our TCB business has grown by ten times over the
past four years, and industry momentum continues to accelerate,"
said Bob Chylak, Kulicke and Soffa's
Chief Technology Officer.
The Company expects its leadership in FTC to further extend as
the need for more complex assembly solutions continue to grow.
During fiscal year 2025, K&S anticipates its TCB business will
increase by 40-50% sequentially, driven by broadening adoption in
leading-edge compute, optical, communications and industrial
markets.
About Kulicke & Soffa
Founded in 1951, Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. specializes
in developing cutting-edge semiconductor and electronics assembly
solutions enabling a smarter and more sustainable future. Our
ever-growing range of products and services supports growth and
facilitates technology transitions across large-scale markets, such
as advanced display, automotive, communications, compute, consumer,
data storage, energy storage and industrial.
Caution Concerning Results, Forward-Looking Statements and
Certain Risks Related to our Business
In addition to historical statements, this press release
contains statements relating to future events and our future
results. These statements are "forward-looking" statements within
the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. While these forward-looking statements represent our
judgments and future expectations concerning our business,
including the importance and competitiveness of our
thermo-compression bonding products and other advanced packaging
technology transitions, a number of risks, uncertainties and other
important factors could cause actual developments and results to
differ materially from our expectations. These factors include, but
are not limited to our ability to develop, manufacture and gain
market acceptance of new and enhanced products, disruptions,
breaches or failures in our information technology systems and
network infrastructures, the persistent macroeconomic headwinds on
our business, actual or potential inflationary pressures, interest
rate and risk premium adjustments, falling customer sentiment, or
economic recession caused directly or indirectly by geopolitical
tensions, our ability to operate our business in accordance with
our business plan and the other factors listed or discussed in our
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2023, filed on November 16, 2023, and our other filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. Kulicke and Soffa Industries,
Inc. is under no obligation to (and expressly disclaims any
obligation to) update or alter its forward-looking statements
whether as a result of new information, future events or
otherwise.
Contacts
Kulicke & Soffa
Marilyn Sim
Public Relations
+65-6880 9309
msim@kns.com
Kulicke & Soffa
Joseph Elgindy
Finance
+1-215-784-7500
investor@kns.com
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