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Transistor scaling, shrinking the critical dimensions of the transistor, has led to continuous improvements in system performance and cost. Higher density of the transistors and larger chip size has also led to new challenges for chip-to-substrate connections. The pace of change in packaging and chip-to-substrate connections has accelerated because off-chip issues are increasingly a limiting factor in product cost and performance. Chip-to-substrate connections are challenged on many fronts, including number of signal input-output (I/O) connections, I/O that operate at high speed, power and ground I/O, and low cost. |