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Assuming that the “paradigm shift” in chip joining from peripheral wiring to area-array flip-chip technology is strategic for future electronics, there are immediate questions which emerge: Who will put bumps on chips and how? Will the same bumped chips be joined to both ceramic and organic packages? Must all chips be joined with high-melting or low-melting solders, or not with solder at all, but with conductive adhesives? This chapter will illustrate that there is presently great diversity in flip chip design and joining. There are reasonable arguments for doing essentially the same job in many different ways. You will find process and structure descriptions from numerous champions of the most prominent alternatives in chip joining without judgements or critiques as to what is good or bad. The marketplace is expected to be the ultimate sorting place which will accept some of the best, and reject others which fall short due to cost, manufacturability, reliability or functionality.
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Totta, P. et al. (2001). Wafer Bumping. In: Puttlitz, K.J., Totta, P.A. (eds) Area Array Interconnection Handbook. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1389-6_2
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