- Wafer Level Packages to Include Solder Ball Support.(Brief Article)

At the advanced technology workshop on chip-scale packaging held by IMAPS in September, a session on wafer-level packaging revealed an interesting trend: Many wafer-level packages ......
- Flip chip process challenges for SMT assembly.(surface mount...

You have heard it countless times before: consumer electronic products such as cell phones, PDAs, digital cameras, etc. are getting smaller, faster, smarter. Consequently, electronics ......
- All dressed up and nowhere to go. (Advanced Packaging).(Brief Article)

Wafer-level packaging (WLP) is one of the revolutionary new packaging implementations of chip-scale packages (CSPs), which have the potential of keeping the package size no ......
- New technology for 2003. (On the Line).(printed circuit connectors )

2002 presented electronics manufacturers the most challenging business conditions in half a century. The "perfect storm," begining in March 2000, decimated businesses with overstocked inventory, ......
- The flip chip: an ultimate packaging solution?

For years, most die have been packaged in, or on, a package consisting of a copper platform. This could have been LPCC, TBGA, SOIC, DIPS ......
- Diamonds in the rough. (Advanced Packaging).(Nanopierce Technologies...

"It's just like the chocolate chips in a chocolate chip cookie," says Bill Pfeiffer, VP of business development at NanoPierce (Denver), when describing the company's ......
- Tessera introduces Pyxis packaging. (Up Front).

Signaling a new era in semiconductor packaging for cellular phones and wireless electronic products, Tessera Inc. unveiled the Pyxis platform, reportedly the world's first chip ......
- Consortiums address advanced packaging requirements. (Advanced...

Two competing consortiums - the Advanced Packaging & Interconnect Alliance (APiA) and Semiconductor Equipment Consortium for Advanced Packaging (SECAP) - are now addressing the requirements ......
- Lines between assembly & packaging blur. (On the Line).(Brief Article)

Recently EP&P solicited industry forecasts on business and technology from movers and shakers in the electronics manufacturing industry. Poring through the flood of responses, numerous ......
- Report analyzes market for Flip Chip and WLPs. (Up Front).(wafer level...

TechSearch International's new study, Flip Chip and Wafer Level Packaging Market Analysis, investigates the growing market for flip chip ICs and wafer level packages (WLPs)....