Kingmax Factory Tour in Hsin Chu, Taiwan
By Gabriel Torres on June 3, 2005 Page 2 of 9

Kinpak Factory Tour


As we’ve explained, Kinpak is Kingmax’s sister company specialized in packing, i.e. cutting the memory wafer and adding a packing and pins to the memory silicon.

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Figure 1: Arrival at Kingpak.

Memory packing process is divided into two big steps: front-end and back-end. On Figure 2 you can see the steps inside the front-end process, while on Figure 3 you can see the steps inside the back-end process.

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Figure 2: Front-end steps for memory packing.

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Figure 3: Back-end steps for memory packing.

The whole process isn’t fast. For BGA memory chips the front-end process takes 5 days, while the back-end process takes 4.5 or 5.5 days.

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Figure 4: Some stats from the packing process.


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