AI chip design is pushing advanced chip packaging to its limits – workarounds exist for limits of 2.5D packaging, but are years away from viability

January 15, 2026

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AI chip design is pushing advanced chip packaging to its limits – workarounds exist for limits of 2.5D packaging, but are years away from viability

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As AI accelerators and HPC devices grow larger and more complex, advanced chip design continues to move away from the transistor and toward the package. Over the past year, packaging engineers and foundries have converged on the same conclusion — that 2.5D integration is now the primary tech responsible for power delivery, signal integrity at extreme bandwidths, mechanical stability across large areas, and in some cases, even active…

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AI chip design is pushing advanced chip packaging to its limits – workarounds exist for limits of 2.5D packaging, but are years away from viability

January 15, 2026

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AI chip design is pushing advanced chip packaging to its limits – workarounds exist for limits of 2.5D packaging, but are years away from viability

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a snippet from the HBM roadmap article — (Image credit: Future)

As AI accelerators and HPC devices grow larger and more complex, advanced chip design continues to move away from the transistor and toward the package. Over the past year, packaging engineers and foundries have converged on the same conclusion — that 2.5D integration is now the primary tech responsible for power delivery, signal integrity at extreme bandwidths, mechanical stability across large areas, and in some cases, even active…

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