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HBM lithography bonding (hybrid bonding)

Copper hybrid bonding enabling HBM4 stacking

Hybrid (copper-to-copper) bonding is the die-stacking technique that HBM4 and advanced logic-on-logic increasingly require as micro-bump pitch hits its limit. Tool control sits with Applied Materials, BESI and EV Group, making bonding-tool capacity a real 2025-2026 bottleneck for both HBM and SoIC-class packaging.

Tool leaders

BESI, EV Group, Applied Materials

Enables

HBM4, logic-on-logic

How it fits the stack

HBM lithography bonding (hybrid bonding) with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.

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HBM lithography bonding (hybrid bonding)Depends on ↑Feeds ↓

HBM lithography bonding (hybrid bonding) in the AI stack. HBM lithography bonding (hybrid bonding) with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.

Graph data (text) — 4 entities, 3 relationships
  • HBM lithography bonding (hybrid bonding)depends onBE Semiconductor (Besi)
  • HBM lithography bonding (hybrid bonding)depends onEV Group
  • HBM4depends onHBM lithography bonding (hybrid bonding)