Michael Plisinski
Chief Executive Officer
Yes. So I think it's a couple of things. So first, volume, so we have high volume for a complicated chiplet architecture, we are going to be connecting multiple die and this package ends up being quite large to process that efficiently and productively. I think everything is going to move towards panel that fits in that frame.
Why glass is because, in addition to that, as you drive these interconnects smaller and smaller going from, let's say, 8 to 10 microns of RDL, down to maybe 5, maybe 3, you can push IC substrate. We're not quite sure. But for sure, below that, like, for instance, 1 micron type RDL, something more stable has to be used. Right now, on a wafer basis, you can use silicon, and that's what's happening for some of the GPU applications you mentioned.
But for going to much broader scale, something else on a panel will be more efficient. And that, we believe, is going to be glass. So glass will allow 1 micron RDL, at table. There's some heat dissipation advantages with it as well. And so -- but there's a lot of processing challenges, including with etching, and that's part of our wafer application centers working with a lot of the overall ecosystem to identify and develop solutions for these challenges so that we can usher it, not at usher in, but help to speed the adoption of the glass substrate in a panel form for the market.
And this is involving developing the -- not just the lithography capability but also the process control capability. And then with through our partners, some of the other solutions, laser drilling, etching, et cetera, chemistries, resist chemistries, things like this.