Patent ID: 7087460

Claim:
A method of assembling a flip chip-type semiconductor device assembly, the method comprising: providing a wafer having an active surface and a back surface and including a plurality of unsingulated semiconductor dice, at least some semiconductor dice of the plurality having conductive bumps protruding transversely from the active surface; providing a wafer scale interposer substrate having a first surface and a second surface, the wafer scale interposer substrate including a plurality of unsingulated interposer substrates, each having a plurality of conductive elements thereon adjacent the second surface, each unsingulated interposer substrate dimensioned and located to correspond with one of the plurality of semiconductor dice of the wafer, each of the plurality of interposer substrates having a plurality of recesses extending thereinto from the first surface to expose at least a portion of one of the plurality of conductive elements; and placing the wafer with the active surface thereof facing the first surface of the wafer scale interposer substrate and the plurality of unsingulated semiconductor dice in alignment with the plurality of unsingulated interposer substrates and disposing each of the conductive bumps protruding transversely from the active surface into a recess of the plurality of recesses of the plurality of interposer substrates so that the conductive bumps are substantially received within the plurality of recesses in the plurality of interposer substrates.