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Articles - Integrated circuit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | The earliest integrated circuits were packaged in ceramic flat packs, which continued to be used by the military for their reliability and small size for many years. |
| | Commercial circuit packaging quickly moved to the dual in-line package (DIP), first in ceramic and later in plastic. |
| | In the 1980s pin counts of VLSI circuits exceeded the practical limit for DIP packaging, leading to pin grid array (PGA) and leadless chip carrier (LCC) packages. |
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