Invention candidates relevant to Intel
Logic, advanced packaging & glass-core substrates
Intel has put glass-core substrates on its packaging roadmap with samples and EMIB-plus-glass integration in view this decade. The glass-core liner, barrier, dielectric, and thermal portfolio maps directly onto that transition, and the high-k arm onto its logic and memory stacks.
What Lattice Graph could do for Intel
Lattice Graph is a computational materials-discovery platform built around a knowledge graph spanning millions of compositions. At its core is a multi-validator pipeline: priority candidate materials must earn consensus across multiple independent machine-learning interatomic potentials — drawn from MACE, CHGNet, MatterSim, and ORB — before any DFT compute is allocated, and phonon and thermodynamic stability are required checkpoints, not optional analyses. Beyond stability validation, the platform runs targeted property simulations — dielectric permittivity, thermal conductivity, diffusion barriers, bandgap, and more — tuned to the specific physics each program demands. A freedom-to-operate and patent-whitespace engine screens across our indexed corpus of materials patents at composition and claim level, surfacing a preliminary IP screen before any fabrication investment.
Why these invention candidates are relevant to Intel
Intel's glass-core substrate roadmap is one of the most materials-intensive transitions in advanced packaging in a generation. Lattice Graph's computational discovery platform was built precisely for this problem: multi-potential consensus validation on the phonon and thermodynamic stability of thin-film candidates, followed by targeted simulation of the thermal, diffusion, and dielectric properties that govern whether a material survives in a through-glass via or an RDL stack at production scale. Intel's parallel work on high-k and wide-gap dielectrics for logic gate stacks and MIM capacitors adds a second computational dimension. Gate-stack and MIM integration requires materials that simultaneously maximize permittivity, maintain wide bandgap for leakage control, and survive aggressive thermal budgets — a three-way trade-off where conventional trial-and-error is slow and expensive. Our knowledge graph covers the layered-perovskite and Ruddlesden-Popper composition spaces that look most promising for this application, with DFT-computed stability and permittivity data (not yet measured). The combination of Intel's glass-core roadmap timeline, its HBM-era packaging needs, and its gate-stack dielectric programs maps cleanly onto four of our discovery portfolios. Our freedom-to-operate screening across 300,000-plus materials patents means Intel can identify deposition-ready compositions with a preliminary IP screen before the architecture locks in — not after, when design-arounds are expensive or impossible.
Intel business lines
- →Advanced logic & process technology
- →Advanced packaging (EMIB, Foveros) & glass-core substrates
- →Gate-stack & MIM dielectric integration
- →Data-center & AI accelerator silicon
Where we fit
Glass-core substrates and HBM-era high-k dielectrics are entering Intel's recipes now. The AlN via liner, the sub-tantalum-nitride copper barrier, the integrated glass-core stack, and a wide-gap Ruddlesden-Popper high-k arm give Intel claims on computationally screened compositions intended for deposition (preliminary IP screen only, not a freedom-to-operate opinion) before the architecture locks in.
The Lattice Graph fit for Intel
Intel's glass-core substrate roadmap is one of the most materials-intensive transitions in advanced packaging in a generation. Lattice Graph's computational discovery platform was built precisely for this problem: multi-potential consensus validation on the phonon and thermodynamic stability of thin-film candidates, followed by targeted simulation of the thermal, diffusion, and dielectric properties that govern whether a material survives in a through-glass via or an RDL stack at production scale. Intel's parallel work on high-k and wide-gap dielectrics for logic gate stacks and MIM capacitors adds a second computational dimension. Gate-stack and MIM integration requires materials that simultaneously maximize permittivity, maintain wide bandgap for leakage control, and survive aggressive thermal budgets — a three-way trade-off where conventional trial-and-error is slow and expensive. Our knowledge graph covers the layered-perovskite and Ruddlesden-Popper composition spaces that look most promising for this application, with DFT-computed stability and permittivity data (not yet measured). The combination of Intel's glass-core roadmap timeline, its HBM-era packaging needs, and its gate-stack dielectric programs maps cleanly onto four of our discovery portfolios. Our freedom-to-operate screening across 300,000-plus materials patents means Intel can identify deposition-ready compositions with a preliminary IP screen before the architecture locks in — not after, when design-arounds are expensive or impossible.
Portfolio fit for Intel
The Glass-core advanced-packaging substrates portfolio is the primary match for Intel's substrate roadmap. It covers the through-glass via liner, copper diffusion barrier, redistribution-layer dielectric, and cap layers as an integrated, teardown-verifiable stack design — with package reliability endpoints defined for each layer, not yet run. The Integrated packaging, storage and PFAS-treatment systems portfolio extends this coverage to integrated glass-core substrate stack claims and to the high-k passive layers that appear in advanced packaging as embedded MIM capacitors. The Ba2HfO4 Ruddlesden-Popper dielectric in this portfolio may be relevant to DRAM and packaging capacitor work, with a database-computed permittivity around 53.5 and a wide computed bandgap that could aid leakage control (unmeasured). The Dielectric, ferroelectric and wide-bandgap oxides portfolio addresses Intel's logic and memory gate-stack and MIM integration needs — high-k materials that survive aggressive thermal budgets without sacrificing leakage performance. Finally, the High-power thermal-interface materials portfolio is relevant to Intel's data-center and AI accelerator packages, where thermal-interface resistance at the die-to-lid and lid-to-heat-spreader interfaces is a first-order power-density constraint. All four portfolios carry preliminary-screen-only or narrow-gap positions established before the broader industry has populated the adjacent claim space.
Discoveries we'd license to Intel
See the full portfolio →Selected from our discovery portfolio and weighted to Intel's programs — each with a computational evidence dossier. Open any for the full technical read.
Aluminum nitride thermal liner for through-glass vias in advanced packaging
Integrated glass-core advanced-packaging substrate stack
Tungsten boride copper diffusion barrier on alumina-borate liner for glass-core vias
Glass-core packaging stack with aluminum borate liner, tungsten boride barrier, and chlorine-retaining RDL dielectric
Barium hafnate Ruddlesden-Popper high-permittivity dielectric for MIM capacitors
Ordered fabrication method for integrated glass-core advanced-packaging substrates
Why these fit Intel
Aluminum nitride thermal liner for through-glass vias in advanced packaging →
Wurtzite AlN as a via-wall liner is projected by a simplified series-resistance model to turn the through-glass via from a thermal bottleneck into a heat path (not measured) — relevant to Intel's EMIB-plus-glass-core integration, where managing thermal resistance at the via level is a first-order constraint for high-TDP accelerator packages. Only a preliminary FTO screen has been run (not a freedom-to-operate opinion), and the material has been validated across the platform's multi-potential stability pipeline.
Integrated glass-core advanced-packaging substrate stack →
This system-level claim covers the full ordered stack — thermal liner through high-k passive — as a single article with 16 package reliability endpoints defined, not yet run, which matches the integration architecture Intel is building toward with EMIB-plus-glass before 2030. Owning or licensing a stack-level claim provides a broader IP position than layer-by-layer filings and is harder for competitors to design around.
Tungsten boride copper diffusion barrier on alumina-borate liner for glass-core vias →
Tungsten boride is proposed, from a computed copper migration barrier, to block copper diffusion at sub-tantalum-nitride film thickness (untested), which would free geometric budget in high-aspect-ratio through-glass vias — the constraint that tightens as Intel scales via pitch in glass-core substrates. Only a preliminary FTO screen has been run (not a freedom-to-operate opinion), and thinner barrier films directly translate to lower via resistance and more routing budget in the RDL.
Barium hafnate Ruddlesden-Popper high-permittivity dielectric for MIM capacitors →
Ba2HfO4 has a database-computed permittivity around 53.5 (unmeasured) and a wide computed bandgap, making it a candidate worth testing for MIM capacitor integration in DRAM and advanced packaging; whether the Ruddlesden-Popper layered-perovskite structure suits the ALD sequences in Intel's gate-stack and MIM toolkit is untested. Only a preliminary FTO screen has been run (not a freedom-to-operate opinion), and the composition has passed multi-potential thermodynamic stability validation.
Name a computational feat you think we can't do.
The specific computational challenge for Intel's glass-core program is multi-objective co-optimization of the through-glass via stack: identifying via-liner and copper-barrier compositions that simultaneously satisfy thermal conductivity targets above 100 W/m·K, copper diffusion suppression at sub-tantalum-nitride film thickness, adhesion to borosilicate glass sidewalls under thermal cycling, and ALD process compatibility — a four-constraint problem across a composition space large enough that exhaustive physical screening is not feasible.
Send us a challenge →APIs & data for Intel
Live data and API products running on our production platform — licensed to your team, with full schemas and access terms on request.
The Knowledge-Graph API gives Intel's process and integration teams direct programmatic access to the platform's materials knowledge graph — querying by composition, property neighborhood, or provenance to pull validated stability records, thermodynamic and phonon data, and evidence chains for any candidate in the glass-core or high-k design spaces. Natural-language graph queries let materials engineers explore composition neighborhoods without writing graph-query syntax, and every record carries full provenance back to the originating simulation or experiment. For Intel's advanced packaging and gate-stack programs, this means rapid composition-space exploration before committing to physical deposition experiments. The freedom-to-operate and patent-whitespace API operates at both composition and claim level across our indexed corpus of materials patents, returning preliminary screen signals or proximity flags for any composition Intel is evaluating. For a company with Intel's IP portfolio and exposure to infringement claims from packaging-materials competitors, claim-level screening before a recipe is finalized is materially cheaper than a freedom-to-operate opinion commissioned after process integration. Both APIs are available with provenance metadata and can be integrated into Intel's existing materials informatics and IP-management workflows.
FTO / Patent-Whitespace API
Composition- and claim-level prior-art and patent-whitespace screening across 306K materials patents: a preliminary technical screen for counsel, not a freedom-to-operate opinion.
Knowledge-Graph API
Provenance, composition-360, evidence neighborhoods, and natural-language graph queries across the materials knowledge graph.
In the platform for Intel
The Lattice Graph web application gives materials and packaging teams an interactive workspace for navigating the knowledge graph, reviewing multi-potential validation results, and running targeted property simulations on candidate compositions without writing code. Teams working on Intel's through-glass via stack can filter candidates by thermal conductivity, diffusion-barrier performance, or ALD/CVD process compatibility, compare stability evidence across MACE, CHGNet, MatterSim, and ORB simultaneously, and export simulation reports tied to specific package reliability endpoints. The application also surfaces the freedom-to-operate and patent-whitespace screening results directly alongside property data, so a process engineer evaluating a new via liner composition sees both the thermal performance projection and the IP landscape in a single view. Collaboration features let packaging integration, process development, and IP teams share annotated composition sets and simulation workspaces — useful for Intel's cross-functional glass-core substrate development process, where materials decisions involve process, reliability, and legal stakeholders simultaneously.
How an engagement works
A typical engagement begins with a scoped composition-space survey: we ingest Intel's target specifications — via geometry, thermal budget, deposition process constraints, reliability endpoints — and run the multi-potential stability pipeline across the relevant composition neighborhoods, delivering a ranked candidate set with stability evidence, targeted property simulations, and initial freedom-to-operate signals. This deliverable is designed to plug into Intel's integration review process as a materials input, not a research output. From there, engagements typically expand into either a portfolio licensing discussion around specific assets — with pricing structured around field-of-use and exclusivity — or a continuous-access arrangement covering the Knowledge-Graph and freedom-to-operate APIs plus application seats for the process, integration, and IP teams. Custom simulation campaigns targeting Intel's specific process conditions, such as ALD sequence validation for the tungsten boride barrier or permittivity modeling at Intel's MIM stack thermal budgets, can be scoped as add-on workstreams. Engagement structure is flexible; we propose starting with a time-boxed asset evaluation tied to a specific program milestone.
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