A letter to inform a business closure

    Eight years ago, I was interviewed with big boss if I was willing to transfer departure from lab engineer to R&D designer which dedicated to Intel products. This will be my opportunities to learn more new things in semiconductor factory, therefore I decided to agree with it.

    The first year of my joining majorly focused on the second source of substrate vendors, it is really easily to revise the proposal, which only revised the part number of the dedicated vendors. However, there is still some delamination issues, capability issue or vendors issue. I felt perplexed when I started implementing the low cost solution, especially the silver wires reliability issue. At least three times to cope with the silver wires corrosion issue in packaging semiconductor factory. The process team was struggling to increase the purity of nitrogen gas, tightened the window gate of wire bonding workability. Finally, all NAND products could be transferred from gold wires to silver wires after two-years effort.

    When the new 3D X-points products were developed jointly by Intel and Micron on 2015, the new type of memory products which alleged can enhance the speed faster thousand times compared with NAND products. I started rambling to develop different structure or packages in order to meet the end customer criteria. Unfortunately, there is barely fewer products has sustainability and continuity to go high volume production.

    Almost seven years, I have dedicated my life and effort on designing and restructure the package to replace NAND and DRAM, but it finally failed to capture the goal on emerging memory. I just saw their procrastination for decades, they just simply leveraged some similar devices from old devices to new devices. There is no any significant changes in technology.

    Intel is a prestigious company which has the largest supporter, the USA, if any lack of money, just stab the competitors in the back and convince the government to invest more money into their pockets. I can see that Intel has no more any big trusted investors in this great recession period. Even though Intel has announced the discontinuing the development of 3D X-point, but I still looking forward the future of culture changes or any shift in focus to bring new better profits in CXL interface.