Dr. Warren,
The word should have a space like this.  Kou tasou PBGA.
Kou(high, many)  tasou(many, high layers).   Here "kou" functions as
adjective of "tasou".  So Japanese know this is  many layers with
more/high thickness/height.
Hope this helps.

Regards,
Ron Hayashi

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