The trials of wafer-scale integration: Although major technical problems have been overcome since WSI was first tried in the 1960s, commercial companies can't yet make it fly

The superchips are coming! Units under development in industrial and academic laboratories both in the United States and Japan will integrate millions of logic gates into a single package the size of a man's hand. Ultimately, the circuits will encompass an entire wafer. In this size the superch...

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Published in:IEEE spectrum 1984-10, Vol.21 (10), p.32-39
Main Authors: McDonald, Jack F., Rogers, Edwin H., Rose, Kenneth, Steckl, Andrew J.
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Delay
Heating
Integrated circuit interconnections
Logic gates
Metals
Pins
Wiring
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Summary:The superchips are coming! Units under development in industrial and academic laboratories both in the United States and Japan will integrate millions of logic gates into a single package the size of a man's hand. Ultimately, the circuits will encompass an entire wafer. In this size the superchips may be termed wafer-scale integrated (WSI) systems.
ISSN:0018-9235
1939-9340
DOI:10.1109/MSPEC.1984.6370295