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 tomorrow's 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."
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