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White Paper: Advanced Packaging for Medical Microelectronics
Sensors and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are enabling more complex designs of miniature devices in healthcare, smart systems, and consumer electronics. To navigate the challenge of building these devices, it’s essential to partner with an expert in...
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What Works Best For Chiplets
The semiconductor industry is preparing for the migration from proprietary chiplet-based systems to a more open chiplet ecosystem, in which chiplets fabricated by different companies of various technologies and device nodes can be integrated in a single package...
The World’s Tiniest Computers, Medical Devices
With a unique factory setting featuring cutting-edge equipment and meticulous supply chain management, Promex partners with med and biotech companies at all stages in the assembly process, from early prototypes to R&D development and high-volume production....
Silicon Photonics Manufacturing Ramps Up
Circuit scaling is starting to hit a wall as the laws of physics clash with exponential increases in the volume of data, forcing chipmakers to take a much closer look at silicon photonics as a way of moving data from where it is collected to where it is processed...
Choosing adhesives
Medical device designers’ goals have always been enhancing and enriching device functionality while reducing size and cost. This is particularly true as modern devices start acting like complex miniaturized computers for the body, interfaced with microelectronic...
Heterogenous integration packs big innovation into small medical devices
The electronics industry began using the term heterogeneous integration (HI) about five years ago to describe a new approach to building semiconductor devices that would allow for greater density and capability. The legacy approach to making transistors, lines, and...
The Miniaturization Revolution in Electronics
In the realm of electronics and semiconductors, a silent revolution is underway, one marked not by the grandeur of size, but by the subtlety of miniaturization. This long-term trend toward smaller, more compact devices is not just a technological feat; it’s a...
Navigating Heat In Advanced Packaging
The integration of multiple heterogeneous dies in a package is pivotal for extending Moore’s Law and enhancing performance, power efficiency, and functionality, but it also is raising significant issues over how to manage the thermal load. Dave Fromm, COO and vice...
Powerful Sensors for the Eye
Advances in integrated microelectronics have enabled a revolution in ever smaller and more powerful medical sensors. One such use is for detecting pressure in the eye. InjectSense has invented an implantable sensor that detects direct dynamic pressure in the eye...
Heterogeneous Integration Finding Its Footing
Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss heterogeneous integration with Dick Otte, president and CEO of Promex Industries; Mike Kelly, vice president of chiplets/FCBGA integration at Amkor Technology; Shekhar Kapoor, senior director of product management...
Wirebonding Is Here To Stay
Few technologies in semiconductor manufacturing have stood the test of time as steadfastly as wirebonding. This process, which involves electrically connecting semiconductor devices to their packages, has been a cornerstone of the electronics industry since the...
Navigating thermally induced dynamics when developing miniaturized medical devices
Some complexities of integrating miniaturized components, such as microelectronics, into increasingly small medical devices are obvious. Examples include the precision required to position and align components with the requisite accuracy, or the...
Building Better Bridges In Advanced Packaging
The increasing challenges and rising cost of logic scaling, along with demands for an increasing number of features, are pushing more companies into advanced packaging. And while that opens up a slew of new options, it also is causing widespread confusion over what...
How to Build Better Medical Microelectronics
Advances in semiconductors, materials, power, and more are enabling electronics to miniaturize—including medical electronics. Design News asked Dave Fromm, Promex’s chief operating officer, a few questions about engineering microelectronics for medical devices....
Right Sizing Implantable Pressure Sensors
More uses for implantable sensors are being discovered every day. One such capability is pressure detection, including the detection of intra-ocular pressure, helpful for treating glaucoma. In this article for Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry, Promex's Dave...
Exploring the Intricacies of IC Packaging and Assembly Services
Dick Otte, CEO, and Rosie Medina, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, both at QP Technologies, discuss how the company helps its customers with a range of semiconductor technology solutions, covering wafer preparation, advanced assembly and design, IC packaging...
Promex Names David Fromm Chief Operating Officer
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (August 10, 2023) -- Promex, a leader in the assembly of physically small devices that contain semiconductor chips for the medical, biotechnology and communications markets, announced it has named David Fromm its chief operating officer. The...
Goals of Going Green
The chip industry is stepping up efforts to be seen as environmentally friendly, driven by growing pressure from customers and government regulations. In this Semiconductor Engineering article, Dick Otte, CEO of Promex, discussed how the company is working towards...
Enabling New Functionality In Medtech And Biotech Devices
Medtech and biotech devices are uniquely suited to benefit from emerging electronic capabilities – specifically, the kind of electronics design, packaging and assembly offerings that are Promex’s specialty. With that said, these markets present a variety of...
Challenges Grow For Creating Smaller Bumps For Flip Chips
New bump structures are being developed to enable higher interconnect densities in flip-chip packaging, but they are complex, expensive, and increasingly difficult to manufacture. Jeff Schaefer, senior process engineer at Promex Industries, shared insights into...
New York Times: U.S. Focuses on Invigorating Chiplets to Stay Cutting Edge in Tech
For more than 50 years, designers of computer chips mainly used one tactic to boost performance: They shrank electronic components to pack more power onto each piece of silicon. Then more than a decade ago, engineers at the chip maker Advanced Micro Devices began...
Unique Assembly and Production Challenges
Here are some of unique assembly and production challenges we can solve: The smaller the better. We worked with the customer to design an optical Class 3 device that would be inserted into the human body. Requirements included Class 100 assembly and strict...
Advances in Medical Device Design
A short video of how advances in semiconductor assembly and fabrication are re-shaping medical device design:Advances in semiconductor assembly and fabrication are offering medical device designers new options for smaller, more compact, and more sophisticated...
Evolving Heterogeneous Integration Roadmap Highlights Trends
by: Annette Teng, CTO, Promex/Quik-Pak As noted in last month’s blog post, the semiconductor industry has turned its efforts toward the ongoing fleshing out of a roadmap focused on advancing heterogeneous integration (HI). HI integrates separately manufactured...
Promex Awarded CA FDB Medical Device Manufacturing License
Microelectronics Assembly Technology Provider Exhibits June 25-27 at Sensors 2019 (Booth 1229) in San Jose, CA and at IMAPS Advanced SiP in Monterey, CA June 20, 2019 – Promex is now licensed to manufacture Class II and Class III medical devices by The State of...
Promex Industries to Showcase Heterogeneous Integration Expertise for Medical Devices at IMAPS Workshop for Advanced Packaging of Medical Microelectronics
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – January 27, 2020 – Promex Industries, a biotech microelectronics manufacturer specializing in heterogeneous integration of key subsystems for medical, diagnostic, and life sciences devices, announced its participation in this week’s technical...
Promex CTO Annette Teng Receives EPS Regional Contributions Award for Outstanding Leadership, Impact on Programs and Growth
Santa Clara, Calif. – PR NEWSWIRE May 30, 2018 — Promex, a provider of innovative IC packaging and heterogeneous assembly solutions for medical, biotech, and sensor-based microelectronic devices, announces that Promex Chief Technology Officer Annette Teng has been...
Promex Explores Disruptive New Generation of Flexible Hybrid Electronics
Electronics on Everything” may soon be more than just a promise with the advent of flexible hybrid electronics. FHE leverages the low cost of printed plastic film substrates and the performance of semiconductor devices to create a new category of electronics. What...
Promex CEO Richard Otte Presents at IEEE VLSI Test Symposium
The IEEE VLSI Test Symposium tapped Promex President and CEO Richard Otte for a presentation on the status, needs, and potential solutions for testing photonic devices and products. Held earlier this month in San Francisco, the symposium explored emerging trends...
Heterogenous: It’s More Than Just Integration – It’s Assembly Too
by Promex President and CEO Richard Otte The increased functionality of today's devices is mind-boggling. They go well beyond utilizing just electronics. Optical devices analyze chemicals, toxins, and biologic specimens. Semiconductor devices control and switch...
Heterogenous assembly new? We’ve been doing it for 20 years!
by: Dick Otte, President & CEO Ninety percent of contract manufacturers make devices that are little more than metal boxes with stuff in them. The other ten percent offer specialized processes. Then there is the rare breed of microelectronics assembly services...
Developing new medical devices? Start with a free design review for reliability and manufacturability.
by: Rosie Medina, Director Sales & Marketing Medical devices and biotech systems often involve people, animals, bacteria, viruses, and other living entities lacking standard electrical connectors. Instead, they use sensors, actuators, antennas, and probes to...
Even if all you’ve got for your new 5G product is a proof of concept, we can help accelerate the process
by: Dick Otte, President & CEO Annual revenues for 5G services and products are estimated to reach $250 billion by 2025. No wonder manufacturers are racing to be first to market. These new function-rich 5G products will incorporate more sensors and devices and...
Die Attach Film Applications
"Die Attach Film Applications" By Promex CTO Annette TengPublished in MEPTEC Report Winter 2016 Die attach film (DAF) and dicing die attach film (DDAF) have been commercially available since 2000. Epoxy paste adhesives have historically been the sole epoxy material...
Promex Industries Acquires Quik-Pak, a Division of Delphon
Santa Clara, CA, April 1, 2015: Promex Industries, announced today the acquisition of San Diego based Quik-Pak, a division of Delphon. Quik-Pak will retain its San Diego, CA location and operate as a division of Promex. The combined entities are now able to offer...
Advances in Medical Device Package Manufacturing
“Advances in Medical Device Package Manufacturing” by Former Promex Chief Technology Officer Dr. Edward S. Binkley. Presented at the MEPTEC Packaging Symposium, October 2014.Here's a downloadable version (.pdf) of the paper:[pdf-embedder...
Development Status of an OCCAM Electronic Assembly Method
"Development Status of an OCCAM Electronic Assembly Method" by Promex CEO Richard F. Otte and Former Chief Technology Officer Dr. Edward S. Binkley. Published June 2014.Here's a downloadable version (.pdf) of the paper:[pdf-embedder...
A Simplified QFN Package Characterization Technique
"A Simplified QFN Package Characterization Technique” by Promex CEO Richard F. Otte and by Dr. Eric Bogatin and Trevor Mitchell, Bogatin Enterprises. Published August 2010. This technique was used to characterize the electrical parasitics (R, C, and L vs frequency)...