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Chip carrier
Surface mount technology package for integrated circuits / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In electronics, a chip carrier is one of several kinds of surface-mount technology packages for integrated circuits (commonly called "chips"). Connections are made on all four edges of a square package; compared to the internal cavity for mounting the integrated circuit, the package overall size is large.[1]
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