Specialty Packaging for Semiconductors

on Industrial Scale

• Presentation By: Aninda Banerjee

• Institute: Birla Institute of Technology Kolkata.
• Department Chemical & Packaging Technology
• 2nd year 4th semester
What is significance of logistics in
Semiconductor Industries:

 A brief insight:
As of 2021, only three firms are able to manufacture the most advanced semiconductors:
TSMC(Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company): Peoples Republic of China
Samsung Foundries: South Korea.
Intel Corp: United states.
TSMC’s latest factory, is capable of fabricating 3nm process semiconductors and the facility costs a whopping $
19.5 billion.
In fact even a tech giant like Intel are considering outsourcing some production from TSMC as intel can
currently manufacture only 10nm where both TSMC and Samsung can do 5nm.
What is significance of logistics in
Semiconductor Industries:

 Why the previous slide?

Note that Intel’s fabricating facility is in U.S. has to be because it’s U.S. based industry it has to outsource it’s
new generation highly efficient semiconductors to manufacture those bellow 10nm processors from TSMC and
if there is any doubt these industries deal in billions that is Intel outsources billions worth semiconductors from
TSMC. These semiconductors are extremely fragile and sensitive based on the specific parameters which we
will describe further in the presentation this role of taking these sophisticated piece of hardware from one part of
the world to the other part intact is handled by expert logistic industries.
SOME STATISTICAL DATA OF
SEMICONDUCTOR PRODUCTION
DISCUSSION OF WHY LOGISTICS IS
IMPORTANT
• According to the last slide the companies are producing many semiconductors per month an
average of 2000 wafers per month per industry.
• These conductors have to be transported at a much faster rate for the end technological industries
to pump out devices Example- Qualcomm, MediaTek
• These wafers are extremely fragile that is it can’t be just transported anyhow they need special
attention and care like some are photosensitive some react to the atmosphere and some can break
with slightest of the vibration.
• Not just safety but there is fixed schedule/time for the handling this heavy load of chips for the
industries to keep pumping at regular rates.
COST FACTOR OF LOGISTICS

• The cost factor of logistics depends on wide variety of factors but there are two broad categories:
I. PACKGAING MATERIAL USED.
II. MODE OF TRANSPORTATION.
• Now both of them have some sub factors determining the price of the logistics which is very important
in semiconductor industry packaging and both of them have dedicated slides for some over view.
• There are also other factors effecting the cost of packaging and logistics like transportation cost due to
mode of transportation volume and size of packaging how many trips and distance of transportation if
bulk transportation can be made or not and other factors like how much care needs to taken for
transportation of the semiconductors all of this ads up to the cost of logistics
HOW IS COST EFFECTED BY MATERIALS
USED
• The cost of material used can effect the overall price of logistics.
• Material that has to used is determined by the product that is being transported in this case of semiconductors which are
very fragile need extrema quality packaging for their protection.

• The use of cushioning material also increases the cost factor of packaging semiconductors.
• The material has to be hard enough to resists shocks if any during transpiration and also the product should be maintained
inside.

• Semiconductors should have special static proof packaging as slightest of static electric can damage them.
• Some semiconductors are photosensitive this is exposure to light can harm them.
• Some of the semiconductors are reactive to atmospheric gasses and hence have to kept in isolation form the atmosphere
• All of this above factors contribute heavily to the cost factor.
• Generally high grade plastic and corrugated board are used as packaging material with adequate cushioning material of
specific chemical composition which does not react with the semiconductor and adessive used is also selected very
carefully.
HOW MODE OF TRANSPORTATION EFFECT
COST

• Factors like how the semiconductor packages are being transported add up to
the cost of logistics.
• Faster delivery means more cost of transportation also in semiconductors
bulk delivery is very hard as most of the time packages need to vibration
proof and delt with utmost care and hence transported smaller scale and more
trips so that each package can be delt with utmost care.
HOW LOGISTIC FACTORS CAN EFFECT
MARKET PRICE

• Packaging can be very expensive for semiconductors and can effect the price of
the end product drastically hence packaging technology is very important to
optimize the packaging material with intensive R&D to strike a perfect balance
between price and performance of packaging of semiconductors so that the end
product price is not drastically higher than to should be because protection of
this fragile semiconductors is also very important as the price of end product is.
References:

■ Michigan State University- Introduction to semiconductor packaging and logistics.

■ Wikipedia- Supply chain management of semiconductor industries.
■ TSMC open source production information.
■ Michigan State University- Development of Packaging Science & Technology (Hand
Book Of Packaging)- Department of Packaging Engineering and Logistics.
 Bibliography
• I want to tank my mentor Dipanjali Das ma’am and my HOD Dr. Sima
Chakraborty for giving me this wonderful opportunity to present on this topic.
We have learned a lot of things from this presentation on how logistics plays in
important roll in the devices we use daily and in process of manufacturing it’s
core the processors and semiconductors, the depth of the topic in not finite
R&D is being continuously to improve efficiency and working principle of
various concepts I hope to learn more in near future and get more opportunities
to enhance and keep improving my skills and knowledge
Aninda Banerjee.