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Equation 2 · Part 7 · Chiplets and Advanced Packaging in 2035: Scenarios, Signals, and Falsifiable Predictions

Numerator: 1

ρ(p)  ≈  1p2.\rho(p) \;\approx\; \frac{1}{p^{2}}.
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1 occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.

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Analysis. The physical reason pitch matters this much is a simple scaling relationship worth making explicit. For interconnects arranged on a roughly square grid at pitch p , the number of connections available per unit of bonding area scales as ρ(p)  ≈  1p2\rho(p) \;\approx\; \frac{1}{p^{2}}. Halving the pitch is therefore not a doubling of available interconnect density; it is close to a quadrupling. That is the assumption doing the work every time a packaging roadmap reports a pitch number: the 2024-to-2026 move from 400 to 200 nanometres in imec and EV Group’s demonstrated wafer-to-wafer results is not a twofold gain in what a fixed bonding area can carry, it is closer to a fourfold one [ 5 , 4 ] . The comparison…

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