Methods are provided, and devices made by such methods. One of the methods
includes procuring a semiconductor wafer, processing the wafer to form a
plurality of circuits on a top side, forming trenches on the top side
between the adjacent circuits, forming a trench passivation layer on side
walls of the trenches, forming conductive bumps on the top side of the
wafer; and removing material from the bottom side to thin the wafer, and
eventually separate the wafer along the trenches into dies, where each
die includes only one of the circuits.