It was packaged in a 224-lead ceramic leaded package.
The Kyocera Corporation of Japan controls more than half the world market for these ceramic packages.
The nuvistor was a modern receiving tube using a very small metal and ceramic package.
Japanese companies dominate the production of ceramic packages used to house computer chips.
Kyocera is the world leader in ceramic packages for microprocessors and other sophisticated chips.
Most Pentiums that go into a desktop computer have a ceramic package.
The ceramic package was more expensive, but it dissipated heat more effectively than plastic.
Alcoa is considering whether to market ceramic packages for computer chips.
The agency had difficulties when Kyocera, without warning, stopped making the ceramic package for a key chip, according to the minutes.
Kyocera supplies more than half the world market for ceramic packages for computer chips, giving it near-monopoly power.