General trend in electronics industry towards multimedia in the 21 century is presented here. All equipments require fast graphic processing together with thin and lightweight assembly technology. In Japan, CSP was developed and applied to mobile equipments for several years, and recently stacked die assembly technology is being developed. In addition, so-called flip chip technology is also being developed and which is applied to MCP and MCM little by little these days. Here current packaging technology in Japan is presented including above.

$\cdot$New CSP using Lead Frame and solder ball techniques. $\cdot$EMC needs high filler content, low CTE and high flexural modulus. $\cdot$Solder Joint Reliability improved by anchor leads. .Uniform inner lead shape would be better at capacitance values. $\cdot$Low Assembly cost CSP.

Interconnect - Wire bonding-> Flip chip interconnect ; At research step, Au stud bump bonding seems to be more proper .Package -Plastic package-> $Z_{0}$ controlled land grid package -Flip Chip will be used for RF ICs and CSP for digital ICs -RF MCM comprised of bare active devices and integrated passive components -Electrical design skills are much more required in RF packaging .Passive Component -discrete-> integrated -Both of size and numbers of passive components must be reduced

A bare chip packaging technology by an encapsulated flip chip bonding on a build-up printed circuit board has emerged in 1991. Since then, it enabled a high density and low cost semiconductor packaging such as a direct chip bonding on mother board and high density surface mount components, such as BGA and CSP. This technology can respond to various requirements from applications and is considered to take over a main role of semiconductor packaging in the next decade.