Showing papers by "Rao Tummala published in 1994"
12 Sep 1994
TL;DR: The question that the JTEC Electronic Packaging Panel was asked to answer was, why? as discussed by the authors, and the answer was: "Why not?" The answer was that "global competition in the electronics industry is offering unprecedented challenges to the industrial sector, and new technology is readily available to anyone who aggressively pursues it".
Abstract: Global competition in the electronics industry is offering unprecedented challenges to the industrial sector. Product lifecycles are shortening, development cycle times are decreasing, profit margins are declining, and new technology is readily available to anyone who aggressively pursues it. Japan has targeted electronics as an industry vital to its industrial success, and can, to a large degree, declare victory-particularly in the high-volume, low-cost electronic assembly industry. The question that the JTEC Electronic Packaging Panel was asked to answer was, why?. >
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