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Solid State Technology

Year 2002
Issue 3

DEPARTMENTS

Editorial


Antidote for supply chain woes

When talking with industry contacts, I often ask people what they see happening to help the poor "visibility" up and down the supply chain. The answers are not very encouraging.


New Products


New Products

System A45 is an automatic pick-and-place system designed to handle wafers up to 8-inches with low pick-up force and features an improved ink dot and wafer mapping capability


News


APEX focuses on test and inspection

Test and inspection equipment of all kinds could be found all over the show floor at the IPC's APEX conference and exhibition in January


News


MEPTEC MEETING REPORT

Intel's Packaging Plans Discussed


News


Newport to acquire MRSI

Newport Corp. announced during APEX and Photonics West that it will be acquiring Micro Robotics Systems Inc. (MRSI), a privately held company based in North Billerica, Mass.


Think Tank


Think Tank

Farmer Giles had an equilateral-triangle-shaped lawn with a side of 42 yards. Being too lazy to mow such a large area, he bought a goat to eat the grass


FEATURES

Flip Chip Defect Detecti


Flip chip defect detection

Acoustic micro imaging and destructive correlation


The Back End Process Ste


The back-end process: Step 3 - Wafer backgrinding

With the proliferation of smaller and thinner packages for portable and hand-held products, there is an increased need for thinner semiconductor devices


New Reflowable Underfill


New reflowable underfill materials

Processing parameters and reliability performance


Liquid Crystal Polymers.


Liquid crystal polymers

A flex circuit substrate option


10th Anniversary Insight


10th Anniversary Insights
As semiconductor packaging and board assembly converge

Throughout the electronics industry, new packaging technologies are driving changes in manufacturing