Patent ID: 7982279

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a stacked-type semiconductor device having a semiconductor chip stacked on a semiconductor chip, comprising: a dividing groove forming step in which dividing grooves with a depth corresponding to a finished thickness for a plurality of first semiconductor chips formed in areas demarcated by planned dividing lines formed in a grid pattern on the face side of a semiconductor wafer are formed on the face side of said semiconductor wafer along said planned dividing lines; a stacking step for stacking second semiconductor chips on the face-side surfaces of said first semiconductor chips of said semiconductor wafer, wherein the stacking step is performed after the dividing groove forming step; a protective member covering step of covering the face-side surfaces of said second semiconductor chips with a protective member; and a dividing step of grinding the back side of said semiconductor wafer until said dividing grooves are exposed and said first semiconductor chips are thinned to said finished thickness, and dividing said semiconductor wafer into individual semiconductor chips each having said second semiconductor chip stacked on said first semiconductor chip.