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Solid State Technology

Year 2005
Issue 7

DEPARTMENTS

Editorial Board


Effects on Packaging from the Progression of Wafer Technologies

Consumer electronics today are demanding higher performance devices, smaller form factors, and lower power consumption.


New Products


Semicon West 2005 Product Preview


News


In the News


Industry Voices


3-D Packaging: A Growing Level of Functional Integration

Feature-rich cell phones, pocket PCs, digital cameras, and other handheld consumer products require maximum functional integration, including memory, DSP, ASIC, RF, MEMs, and other devices in the smallest footprint, lowest profile, and lowest cost package available.


Packaging Trends


Subcontractor Update: Uniformly Down in Q1, Optimism Looking Ahead

The major assembly and test subcontractors started 2005 with financial results that were surprisingly uniform and generally as projected, but they were negative by most measures.


Editorial


Touting the Next Big Thing

Have you noticed how electronics experts are all searching for the next piece of news, the next new product that will blow away the competition, or that one bit of “secret stuff” that no one else knows about?


FEATURES

Testing For Bga Resistan


Testing for BGA Resistance to Brittle Fracture

INDIVIDUAL BONDS CAN BE TESTED IMMEDIATELY AFTER REFLOW


The Back End Process


Wire Bonding Tutorial

Advances in Bonding Technology


Automation And Advanced


Automation and Advanced Packaging Assembly

IMPROVING THROUGHPUT, QUALITY, & YIELD


Bearing Life A Future Pa


Bearing Life: A Future Package Cooling Challenge

THERMAL DESIGN FOR COOLING MICROPROCESSOR PACKAGES


Wire Bond Vs Flip Chip P


Wire Bond Vs. Flip Chip Packaging

A TECHNICAL TRADE-OFF ANALYSIS


Sop For Multifunctional


SoP for Multifunctional System Packages

THROUGH THIN FILM COMPONENT INTEGRATION IN CONTRAST TO SIP WITH STACKED IC MODULES


Cover Story


Thermal Conductivity In Advanced Chips

EMERGING GENERATION OF THERMAL GREASES OFFERS ADVANTAGES