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It is my pleasure to write this my first letter to the Society I love since 20 years and I hope the new Board will be able to serve you, our members, as well as we have been served up to now. This letter gives me an excellent opportunity to thank especially Søren Nørlyng for the excellent and hard work he has done for our Society and hope he will continue with his work as vice president. New Board 1997 There has been some changes in the Board as of January 1997. The full information on the Board members is printed in the right margin of this letter. A Virtual Board Meeting was held in March in order to steer the activities. New technology enables us to commit the Board to any new question fast and efficiently whenever needed. The new board can already present some results: An ISHM-Nordic Web site has been opened and basic information about our Society can be found there. In the near future this will be our most important and fastest way of communication. All suggestions to additional information there, corrections or difficulties to access should be sent to the Secretary Katarina Boustedt. So go and check the site at

http://www.ivf.se/ep/ishm/

You may also have noticed that the letter format is new. We will use this format until all information is stabilised and then we will print letterheads as before. Anyway, you find all necessary information about the Society, including post giro number in lower right hand corner. From this page you also see all Board members e-mail addresses as well as all other contact information. Even the Society as such has got a direct, easy to remember on-line e-mail address which the Secretary reads every weekday.

We are expecting some changes in both the e-mail and the web address in May 1997. Also the name of the Society is supposed to be changed. The two US organisations ISHM and IEPS have merged and changed their name to IMAPS, International Microelectronics and Packaging Society and at least the European ISHM organisations will follow.

The Board members are presented briefly at the end of this letter. This might help you communicate more active with us. It’s all about communication! ISHM-Nordic 34th Annual Conference, Oslo, Sept. 21-24, 1997 ISHM-Nordic 34th Annual Conference and Exhibition will take place at Olavsgaard Hotel, near Oslo, Norway, September 21-24, 1997. Enclosed is the Call for Papers. Please take the opportunity to tell all of us about your applications and the technologies used. We need more papers from the Nordic countries !

As usual we will start with tutorials and a cocktail party Sunday 21st. More details will be distributed in June. Be sure to be there - seeing old friends and enjoying the entertainment .... In conjunction with this Conference there will as usual be an exhibition available to companies wishing to present their products and services to the delegates. The exhibition area is ideally situated just outside the lecture hall. For information, contact Exhibition Host Snorre Prytz at fax +47 6380 7212. Make sure to reserve these dates in your diary ! European Microelectronics Conference (EMC’97), Venice, 13-16 May, 1997 This years BIGGEST event in microelectronics in Europe is the bi-annual EMC. If you have not yet seen the program with three days of intensive double session programs, eight high level Professional Advancement Courses, a large Exhibition, NETPACK meeting and GOOD-DIE seminar, please contact immediately the ISHM Italy Secretariat at fax +39 382 27697 for information. It is now high time to pre-register to the events and make sure you get a hotel in the crowded but beautiful Venice.

IMAPS (ISHM US + IEPS) will arrange their jubilee conference in Philadelphia, October 12 - 16 1997. If you have a chance, go and experience a ISHM conference, ten times bigger than our ISHM Nordic family atmosphere conferences. See their web site at http://www.ishm.ee.vt.edu/, linked from the Nordic site. Other Events E-mail us if you need more details on: · 1997: May 10-12, ISHM/NATO, Slovenia; · 1998: February 16 - 20, EMIT’98, ISHM India.

A hint: Check the hot links from our web site to IMAPS and TechSearch (See Paul’s popular web addresses) for up-to-date information about conferences world wide in the area of microelectronics, packaging and interconnections. 1997 Membership Fee In the last letter you got a member fee invoice, please check if it is paid. Your payment is the basis for our activities. By paying the fee you will receive information on conferences in ISHM-NORDIC and ISHM/IMAPS. You will have discounts when you attend these conferences. You will also have the possibility to buy Proceedings at marginal cost. Also you will receive 3 issues of the European "Microelectronics International". Please use our giro accounts for payment. Any questions related to this should be directed to Terho, our Treasurer.

Please let me emphasise once more how important it is for you and the Society that you pay the fee: It will make it possible for us to improve our services and it will offer you even better possibilities to access the wealth of knowledge presented at microelectronics conferences around the world. Proceedings We can offer you the latest Proceedings from · ISHM-NORDIC 1996, Helsingør, 1994, Helsinki; · ISHM-Europe (10th EMC, 1995, Copenhagen, 9th EMC, 1993, Nice), · ISHM-US ISHM’96 (Minneapolis), ISHM’95 (Los Angeles) and ISHM'94 (Boston). The price is DKK 300/FIM 235 ea. plus postage. We have a few samples of the ISHM-Poland, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, ISHM-USA/Poland, 1995, Japanese IMC-Proceedings, and older issues of ISHM-Nordic and ISHM-US. Fax or email the Secretary for ordering or questions. Other publications We can offer the East and Central European Survey: Gateway to Eastern Europe, on Microelectronics activities in 15 Eastern European countries. It is a unique collection of statistical info and listings of activities and capabilities by name of the enterprises and their full addresses. It has many important details for companies interested in business and research collaboration. It is now offered for DKK 1.000 + postage.

Another popular publication is the Nordic Microelectronics Survey. More than 60 companies, research institutes, universities have been visited and supplied input to the survey. This had made it possible to know not only statistical facts regarding the size, revenue, number of employees for the different companies, but also to know what National Programmes each of the Nordic countries are supporting within Microelectronics and to know about actual technologies and coming trends in the individual companies. The survey can be achieved for the very reasonable price of DKK 2.000. Who is who on the Board? Paul Collander, the new President, has been ISHM Nordic member since 1974 when he started in the microelectronics world and Board member since 1986. All these years he has been with Nokia, starting with setting up the first hybrid production line and now when Nokia has sold out all PCB and hybrid manufacturing lines he is more involved in searching new manufacturing technologies and to work on the advanced technology supply chain. In the Board his role is chairing the activities, especially our conference programs, and being contact point to the ISHM European Liaison Committee.

Søren Nørlyng, has been in the ISHM-NORDIC board since 1983. From 1983-91 as secretary and from 1991-96 as president. From 1995-97 he is the Chairman of ISHM-Europe and has since 1991 served as the representative of ISHM-NORDIC in the ELC (European Liaison Committee). Søren was appointed "Fellow of the Society" of ISHM-US in 1996 and he is also now Senior member of IMAPS. His company Micronsult offers consultative services within microelectronics and does also represent products and technologies for the development and production of passive and active components and microelectronics. Special focus is on materials for miniaturisation and power modules.

Katarina Boustedt has her background in Engineering Physics and specifically Materials Science. In 1990 she joined the Department of Electronics Packaging, Design & Production Research at IVF. She conducted research projects concerning advanced packaging, such as flip-chip on different substrates, chip scale packaging, and low-cost multichip modules. From May 5 1997, she is employed by Ericsson Microwave Systems, working at the Core Unit Research Center, Microwave and High Speed Electronics, where she will be involved with packaging issues for future products. Katarina is a member of ISHM since1994, and serves as Secretary of ISHM-Nordic since January 1997.

Terho Kutilainen was elected Treasurer of ISHM Nordic from the beginning of 1997. He is also a member in the European Electronic Component Manufacturers Association’s (EECA) hybrid committee. He is working with Aspocomp Oy Microelectronics since 1979. He is responsible for the development of new products mainly for the Scandinavian market. Process development and implementing of new technologies are also an important part of the customer oriented product design. The Treasurer's main responsibility is to arrange the financial matters in practice, to help the Board with budgeting and assist with arrangement of conferences. Terho would like to kindly ask all to use our Nordic Giro Accounts when paying the annual fee.

Hans Danielsson was one of the founder members of ISHM-Nordic in 1971,and was the president for the first five years and vice president for more than 15 years.With a 6 years background in thin film microelectronics he started the thick film activity at Saab 1966 and was heading this activity to 1985.Then he was an electronic packaging specialist for the Saab group of companies working a lot with automotive electronics. In 1990 he started his own consulting activity working both with microelectronics and Surface Mount Technology.He is the author of the book "Surface Mount Technology with Fine Pitch Components: The Manufacturing Issues".

Snorre Prytz is a Senior Scientist at Forsvarets Forskningsinstitutt where he has been an employee since 1968, working with reliability and electronic packaging since 1980, member of ISHM-Nordic since 1985 and a board member since 1992. Snorre is responsible for this years Exhibition and local arrangements for the conference at Olavsgaard, Oslo.

Anders Åberg joined Ericsson in 1971 and through the years he has held many positions; manager of MCM design, responsible for new products and marketing of microwave microelectronics. Currently working in a newly formed core unit of Ericsson Microwave Systems AB, the Innovation Centre, which is responsible for Strategic Business and Product Development and also involved in Intellectual Property Rights, IPR. He was elected member of the ISHM-Nordic board in 1986, and since then, due to the location of Ericsson Microwave, the conferences in Sweden are held in Gothenburg instead of Stockholm.

Henrik Hvims, ISHM-Nordic member since 1979, joined Motorola working as research scientist in microelectronic interconnection technologies. In 1984, he was appointed ISHM Nordic Board member. In 1989, Henrik joined DELTA Danish Electronics, Light & Acoustic (the former ElektronikCentralen), where he has managed projects on, e.g., PTF, TAB, and green tape multilayer techniques. During the last six years, his responsibility includes conductive adhesive joining research projects. Among other things, he is heavily involved in the national research project, "MicrosystemCentret (MSC)", responsible for Flip Chip combined with conductive adhesives and adhesives for assembly and encapsulation. Henrik is now engaged in several Nordic and European thematic networks on "Adhesives in Electronics" and he chairs several international committees on adhesives and packaging.

This was all for this time, see you in Venice or at least in Oslo !

Paul Collander, President and Katarina Boustedt, Secretary