January 21, 2004

Folks, although this question may not be appropriate for this forum, does anyone out there have any information or technical data regarding internal bond-wire failures in non-hermetic integrated circuits (IC).  It is my understanding that this is a recently uncovered problem where the internal bonds in IC''s are failing open due to presence of molecular moisture in the IC, or by outside contamination sources (e.g. 
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