IMAPS 2026 in Boston: advanced packaging for AI chips, with many Japanese companies

Selon un rapport de la JETRO (9 octobre), IMAPS 2026 est l’événement annuel de l’association IMAPS, spécialisée dans l’assemblage et le packaging des semi-conducteurs.

Être in the present is est for a singular subject and sont for a plural one. It describes nature, state or place (“is”, “is located”). If what follows (the attribute) is a noun, adjective or prepositional phrase, it is not a passive. If a past participle follows, it is a passive (est annoncé). Headlines and summaries often use the present to describe the current situation.

Selon la JETRO, de nombreuses entreprises et chercheurs japonais y ont présenté leurs travaux.

The passé composé is the most common past tense, used for “did” and “has done” — actions completed in the past. It is formed with the auxiliary avoir (a / ont…) in the present + a past participle. Past participles of -er verbs end in -é (annoncer → annoncé); learn the irregular ones (faire → fait, prendre → pris, voir → vu). In the negative, ne … pas wraps the auxiliary (n’a pas annoncé). In the news it reports facts that have already happened, such as “announced” or “voted”.

Un événement international consacré au packaging des puces d’IA s’est tenu à Boston du 29 septembre au 1er octobre.

The passé composé of a pronominal verb (se + verb) always uses être as auxiliary (il s’est diffusé / elles se sont réunies). Se changes with the subject: me, te, se, nous, vous. The past participle usually agrees with the subject in gender and number.

De quel événement s’agit-il ?

A pronominal verb is used with a reflexive pronoun (me, te, se, nous, vous) before the verb. It can mean “do to oneself”, “be done” or “do to each other”. In the news, se traduire (to result in), se tenir (to take place), s’agir de (to be a matter of) and se diffuser (to spread) are frequent. The pronoun changes with the subject (il se tient / ils se tiennent / je me souviens).

Pour les puces d’IA, la performance de la puce ne suffit pas : la vitesse d’échange avec la mémoire, la consommation et la chaleur sont des défis majeurs.

Normally ne and pas wrap the verb. Before a vowel, ne becomes n’. Check which part of the sentence the negation covers. Ne … plus means “no longer”.

Selon la JETRO, de nombreuses entreprises et chercheurs japonais y ont présenté leurs travaux.

Selon means “according to”. Put a person or organisation after it as the source. It separates facts the writer checked directly from what another body or report said. Citing a source does not turn a forecast into an accomplished fact.

Lors de la conférence d’ouverture, le Dr Chidambaram de Qualcomm a présenté « High-Bandwidth Compute (HBC) », une technique d’assemblage en trois dimensions qui place les circuits de calcul directement sous la DRAM, afin de répondre aux limites de bande passante, de consommation et de chaleur.

Qui continues a description of the person or thing just mentioned (“the one that does…”). Because qui is itself the subject of the next verb, do not repeat the subject. The verb agrees with the noun qui refers to.

Selon un rapport de la JETRO (9 octobre), IMAPS 2026 est l’événement annuel de l’association IMAPS, spécialisée dans l’assemblage et le packaging des semi-conducteurs.

Dans means “in, inside” for places, but also for a scope such as a system or period. With future time, dans deux jours means “in two days”. In the article’s example, check what it is “inside” and which scope it marks. Identify the value of dans in the passage.

Il s’est tenu du 29 septembre au 1er octobre à Boston, dans le Massachusetts, avec une centaine d’exposants et des entreprises et instituts du monde entier.

Et joins not only words but also groups of nouns and whole clauses. Spot the two elements playing the same role to break up a long sentence. Et does not necessarily express cause and effect.

ジェトロの報告によると、日本の材料・装置メーカーや研究者も数多く発表しています。

As in “LCPによると”, it shows where the information comes from. What that source reported follows. It is used differently from “私にとって”, which gives one’s own opinion.

技術発表には、ノーステキサス大学の低温での銅どうしの直接接合、大阪大学と奥野製薬工業のガラス基板への銅電極の形成、太陽インキ製造とジョージア工科大学の高熱伝導のソルダーレジストなどがありました。

“暴言など” gives “abusive language” as one example. It is not necessarily a closed list of only the things named. It also helps when reading the scope of a news story.

AI向け半導体の組み立て技術を扱う国際イベントが、9月29日から10月1日まで米ボストンで開かれました。

In “発表しました”, ました makes a verb polite past. The negative is “ませんでした”. Read the actual date together with the date and time in the text.

ジェトロの報告は、クアルコムの基調講演で、この課題への対策として、高帯域幅化と省電力化への期待が示されたと伝えています。

と takes the content that is reported or explained. In “改定する方針だと報じました”, “改定する方針だ” is what the report said. Separating the content from who said it and how makes long sentences easier to read.

AI向けの半導体では、メモリとの間でデータをやり取りする速さや、消費電力と発熱が大きな課題で、この組み合わせ方が注目されています。

The て-form links actions in a series, in order or as a reason. In “確認して、出発する” the relation is judged from the content. In “〜ている” it can show an action in progress or a continuing state.

ジェトロ（日本貿易振興機構）の報告（10月9日付）によると、「IMAPS 2026」は、半導体の実装・パッケージングの業界団体IMAPSが主催する年次イベントで、9月29日から10月1日まで、米国マサチューセッツ州ボストンで開かれました。

A explains noun B that follows. It is not only possession: the relation can be belonging, target, content and more. In “政府の案” and “年金の税控除”, read the relation from the context.