Patent ID: 8318538

Claim:
A method of information processing using a plurality of stacked integrated circuits, each of the integrated circuits, each of the integrated circuits having major surfaces and bonds formed over a full extent of at least one major surface, wherein at least one of the integrated circuits is thinned and flexible and comprises a contiguous semiconductor substrate formed from a semiconductor wafer, the method comprising: i. transferring information through vertical transmission paths between two or more of the plurality of integrated circuits, wherein at least one of the paths comprises a vertical interconnection passing vertically through the contiguous semiconductor substrate of the at least one of the integrated circuits that is thinned and flexible, the vertical interconnection comprising one of the bonds and being insulated from the semiconductor substrate by a dielectric material having a stress of about 5×10 8 dynes/cm 2 or less; and ii. storing and retrieving information over the vertical transmission paths, wherein at least one of error detection and error correction is performed on the information by at least one of the integrated circuits.