Patent ID: 8587125

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a plurality of layered chip packages, each of the layered chip packages comprising: a main body having a top surface, a bottom surface, and four side surfaces; and wiring that includes a plurality of wires disposed on at least one of the side surfaces of the main body, wherein: the main body includes: a plurality of semiconductor chips stacked, each of the semiconductor chips having a top surface, a bottom surface, and four side surfaces; an insulating portion that covers at least one of the four side surfaces of each of the plurality of semiconductor chips and forms the at least one of the side surfaces of the main body on which the wires are disposed; and a plurality of electrodes that electrically connect at least one of the semiconductor chips to the wires, the method comprising the steps of: fabricating a substructure that includes: an array of a plurality of pre-separation main bodies; and a plurality of holes for accommodating a plurality of preliminary wires, the holes being formed between two adjacent pre-separation main bodies; forming the preliminary wires in the plurality of holes of the substructure by plating; and cutting the substructure so that the plurality of pre-separation main bodies are separated from each other and the preliminary wires are cut into the wires, wherein: the step of fabricating the substructure includes the steps of: fabricating an initial substructure; and forming the plurality of holes in the initial substructure; the step of fabricating the initial substructure includes the steps of: fabricating a pre-array wafer by subjecting a semiconductor wafer having a top surface, a bottom surface, and four side surfaces, the top surface and bottom surface facing toward opposite directions, to processing of forming a plurality of devices at the top surface, the pre-array wafer including an array of a plurality of pre-semiconductor-chip portions each of which includes a corresponding one of the plurality of devices, the pre-array wafer having a top surface and a bottom surface corresponding to the top surface and bottom surface of the semiconductor wafer; forming a plurality of grooves in the pre-array wafer so as to define respective areas of the plurality of pre-semiconductor-chip portions, the plurality of grooves opening in the top surface of the pre-array wafer and being formed such that bottoms of the plurality of grooves do not reach the bottom surface of the pre-array wafer; forming an insulating layer to fill the plurality of grooves; forming a chip array by polishing the bottom surface of the pre-array wafer until the plurality of grooves are exposed; and forming the initial substructure by stacking a plurality of chip arrays, wherein the step of forming the plurality of holes in the initial substructure forms the plurality of holes such that each of the plurality of holes penetrates all of the insulating layers of the plurality of chip arrays.