Patent ID: 8611101

Claim:
An assembly comprising: at least a first and a second microelectronic chip with a wire element, wherein the wire element is a strand including at least first and second different electrically conducting wires each covered with an insulator, the wire element being embedded in a groove of each microelectronic chip and having a longitudinal axis substantially parallel to the axis of the grooves, each chip includes at least one electrically conducting bump in the groove, the at least one bump of the first chip being in contact with the first electrically conducting wire of the strand, and the at least one bump of the second chip being in contact with the second electrically conducting wire of the strand, and the at least one bump of the first chip corresponds to the first electrically conducting wire, and the at least one bump of the second chip corresponds to the second electrically conducting wire such that each chip is connected to only one wire of the strand.