Future of ic's (DIL versus SMD)?

[Rick Jansen]

In message <960926161431.ZM6807 at eipc22> you write:
> 
> The way things are going in industry, in 5 to 10 years time it 
> may be a tough job finding any non-smt components. Maybe we'll 
> all be forced to hang up our soldering irons... 

Interesting point! I have no idea wether DIL chips are an
on-going concern for the semiconductor companies...
Personally I have never tried to build something with SMD's,
though Elektor has published a few (very few) projects with
them.

Anyone with an insight in the future of devices in the regular
DIL packages?

Rick Jansen
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