Patent ID: 7365438

Claim:
Semiconductor device having: (a) a substrate having a first and a second contact-connection side, provision being made of at least one vertical through-plating device for the connection of a first contact area on the first contact-connection side and a second contact area on the second contact-connection side; (b) a first semiconductor component, which is arranged with a first chip contact-connection region facing the substrate on the first contact-connection side; (c) a second semiconductor component, which is arranged with a second chip contact-connection region facing the substrate on the second contact-connection side; the first chip contact-connection region being conductively connected to the second chip contact-connection region via the vertical through-plating device; the first chip contact-connection region having a front chip contact-connection region on an active side of the first semiconductor component and a rear chip contact-connection region on an inactive side of the first semiconductor component opposite to the active side, an internal vertical through-plating device being provided within the semiconductor component which internal through-plating device conductively connects the front and the rear chip contact-connection regions of the first semiconductor component to one another, and (d) a third semiconductor component being arranged on that surface of a semiconductor component which is remote from the substrate in such a way that a front chip contact-connection region of one of the two semiconductor components is connected to a rear chip contact-connection region of the second of the two semiconductor components.