TSMC managed to put antenna right into chip's package

PaulNi
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TSMC managed to put antenna right into chip's package

Postby PaulNi » Wed Jan 08, 2020 10:55 am

https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/2567/tsm ... ckaging/2/

Scroll down to "InFO Antenna-in-Package (InFO_AiP)"

Looks quite handy, what do you think?

ESP_igrr
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Re: TSMC managed to put antenna right into chip's package

Postby ESP_igrr » Wed Jan 08, 2020 10:15 pm

At least one %semiconductor_company% had this working around 2013, so should be possible in 2019, I guess? (May be a different frequency band though)

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10122420B2/en

WiFive
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Re: TSMC managed to put antenna right into chip's package

Postby WiFive » Thu Jan 09, 2020 4:07 am

Easier at 30ghz than 2.4ghz but bcm20732S did it for Bluetooth.

PaulNi
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Re: TSMC managed to put antenna right into chip's package

Postby PaulNi » Thu Jan 09, 2020 9:36 am

Quite a boon if you want to export to US. The chip with built in antenna should amount to a "standalone module" for purposes of FCC certification. So you don't have to recertify every device with it.

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