The three largest metropolitan economies (New York, Los Angeles and Chicago) produce more than such countries as Poland, Belgium, Sweden, and Taiwan, to name a few. New York ranks as the 14 th largest economy in the world, ahead of Mexico and South Korea, which have GDPs in excess of $1 trillion.
Description: A program that focuses on the application of scientific, technological, design, and business principles to the development of packages and packaging materials, including raw material production, conversion of raw materials into usable forms, design, distribution, and post-use recycling and reuse.
Semiconductor Packaging Assembly Technology. Introduction. This chapter describes the fundamentals of the processes. used by National Semiconductor to assemble IC devices in. electronic packages. Electronic packaging provides the in-. terconnection from the IC to the printed circuit board (PCB). Another function is to provide the desired mechanical and. environmental protection to ensure reliability and perfor-. mance. Three fundamental assembly flow processes (Table.