As mobile devices perform more in a smaller form factor, the technologies that enable them are challenged to do the same. As SoC vendors integrate more functionality into slimmer, smaller form factors, advanced packaging, along with SoC integration, is used to reduce the size, cost, and power consumption of the SoC’ s inside the mobile devices. New technologies, such as multi-die System-in-Package (SiP), stacked packages or Package-on-Package (PoP), packages integrating other packages or Package-in- Package (PiP), packages that integrate passives with silicon die, all promise to improve the power consumption, performance, and reduce package sizes. These innovations in SoC packaging technology enable vendors of converged products, such as cellular smartphones and portable media players, to create the small, thin, multi-function devices to meet their market demands.