Summary of the 7th IEEE CPMT HDP´04 Conference,

Between June 30 and July 3, 2004 Shanghai, China

The 7th IEEE CPMT HDP´04 Conference, Between June 30 and July 3, 2004 Shanghai, China was successfully held in Bao Long Hotel, Shanghai, China. About 80 papers were presented at the Conference. 9 short courses were made with high class instructors from industry and academia: These are:

· Torsten Wipiejewski, ASTRI, Hong Kong
· Lawrence Wu, City University of Hongkong, HongKong
· Itsuo Watanabe, Hitachi Chemicals, Japan
· Hans Grönqvist, IVF, Sweden
· CP Wong, Georgia Tech, USA
· James Morris, Portland Sta, USA
· Jie Xue, Cisco, USA
· Li Li, Freescale, USA
· Wei Koh, Kingston, USA

Professor Tummala, Georgia Tech, Dr William Chen, ASE, Jan Vardman, Techsearch, Itsuo Watanabe, Hitachi Chemicals and Dongkai Shangkuan, Flextronics, gave key-note speeches during the conference. It was well received by the audience.

It was recognised that SOP Session and 3D packaging session was of high class with good papers from Georgia Tech, USA, China Central South University, China and Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

A special section in the IEEE CPMT transaction Part B: Advanced Packaging is being prepared.

Due to the interest of this conference in China, it is decided to change this conference series from biannual to annual basis with the IEEE CPMT financial sponsorship and it is going to be the first IEEE CPMT financially sponsored conference in China!

Photos:

E. Jan Vardaman giving keynote address

Rao Tummala during his keynote address

James Morris held a short course

Picture of complete audience

Listening to short course

 

 

 

Submitted by Johan Liu
Email: johan.liu@mc2.chalmers.se