This document is a summary of the risk involved in using surface mount
IC's in FIREFOX.

.H 2 "Parts"

.H 3 "Availability"

The greatest risk in using surface mount is that we may not be able to
get enough RAM chips.  At this time only three vendors have committed to
use the surface mountable package (TI, Mototola, and Fujitsu).  The top
three vendors for 64K bit RAM's have not yet committed (Mitsubeshe, Hitachi,
and NEC).  In the past we have had to use as many as 7 RAM vendors to
supply our needs.

.H 3 "Qualification"

.H 2 "PC Layout and Process"

.H 2 "Manufacturing"

.H 2 "Thermal Problems"

.H 2 "Proto-typing"

