Surface Mount Technology is not a technology of tommorrow but a technology of today. It provides a quantum jump in the packaging tech- nology to produce state-of-the-art miniaturized electronic products. How- ever, in order to take advantage of this technology, a complete infrastruc- ture must be put in place. This requires considerable investment in human and capital resources. Intel corporation has made these investments to keep its customers for components and systems on the leading edge of technology. Based on the experience of putting this infrastructure in place for system products,...