Patent 7435664 was granted and assigned to Intel on October, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to fabricate a package. A metal sheet having trenches is formed. A thinned wafer supported by a wafer support substrate (WSS) is formed. The metal sheet is bonded to the WSS-supported thinned wafer to form a metal bonded thinned wafer. The thinned wafer is diced to the trenches into die assemblies.