Abstract: An electronic device includes a multilevel package substrate, a semiconductor die mounted to the multilevel package substrate, and a package structure that encloses the semiconductor die and a portion of the multilevel package substrate. The multilevel package substrate has a first level, a second level, a first metal stack, and a second metal stack. The first metal stack includes a first set of contiguous metal structures of the first and second levels, the second metal stack includes a second set of contiguous metal structures of the first and second levels, the first and second metal stacks are spaced apart from one another, a first metal trace of the first metal stack partially overlaps a second metal trace of the second metal stack, and the first and second metal traces are in different levels of the multilevel package substrate.

Abstract: An example microelectronic device package includes: a multilayer package substrate comprising routing conductors spaced by dielectric material, the multilayer package substrate having a device side surface and an opposing board side surface, and having a recessed portion extending from the device side surface and exposing routing conductors beneath the device side surface of the multilayer package substrate; a semiconductor die mounted to the device side surface of the multilayer package substrate and coupled to the routing conductors; a passive component mounted to the routing conductors exposed in the recessed portion of the multilayer package substrate; and mold compound covering the semiconductor die, the passive component, and a portion of the multilayer package substrate.

Abstract: A method for dicing a wafer includes scribing perforations in a wafer. The wafer has a monocrystalline structure and the perforations have a polycrystalline structures The method also includes adhering the wafer to a top surface of a dicing tape and applying a downward force on a periphery of the dicing tape. The downward force causes a bottom surface of the dicing tape to deform around a contour of a dome shaped chuck, breaking the perforations in the wafer.