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To: George the Greek who wrote (31282)	10/1/1999 1:17:00 AM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 93625

Hi George P. Cotsonas; Re bump-chip packaging. My understanding is that it is just a way of getting rid of those incredibly tiny little wires that you see flying around the margins of chips. As such, it can be used for die to die, or die to package. The important thing to note is that it drops the cost of pins considerably. This means that engineers will be more likely to design things with large numbers of pins. This will make multi-chip modules more attractive, thereby reducing the amount of high-speed routing needed on PCBs. In other words, packaging is going through another one of its usual transitions to higher pin-count packages. It is this natural evolution that has kept Rambus from being necessary in modern computers. -- Carl