Microelectronics Packaging Handbook Part 2: Semiconductor Packaging

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Electronics has become the largest industry surpassing agriculture auto and heavy metal industries. It has become the industry of choice for a country to prosper already having given rise to the phenomenal prosperity of Japan Korea Singapore Hong Kong and Ireland among others. At the current growth rate total worldwide semiconductor sales will reach $300B by the year 2000. The key electronic technologies responsible for the growth of the industry include semiconductors the packaging of semiconductors for systems use in auto telecom computer consumer aerospace and medical industries displays magnetic and optical storage as well as software and system technologies. There has been a paradigm shift however in these technologies from mainframe and supercomputer applications at any cost to consumer applications at approximately one-tenth the cost and size. Personal computers are a good example going from $500IMIP when products were first introduced in 1981 to a projected $IIMIP within 10 years. Thin light portable user friendly and very low-cost are therefore the attributes of tomorrows computing and communications systems. Electronic packaging is defined as interconnection powering cool ing and protecting semiconductor chips for reliable systems. It is a key enabling technology achieving the requirements for reducing the size and cost at the system and product level.