Patent ID: 7855441

Claim:
A semiconductor card package, comprising: a housing including external terminals exposed at the exterior of the card package, a cavity, and internal terminals revealed by the cavity and connected to the external terminals; and at least one internal semiconductor package disposed in the cavity and having a substrate, input/output (I/O) terminals disposed on the substrate, each of the I/O terminals being connected to one of the internal terminals of the housing, and at least one chip mounted to the substrate, the at least one chip being electrically connected to the I/O terminals, wherein the housing comprises: a printed circuit board (PCB) comprising a substrate and the internal and external terminals, wherein the internal terminals are integral with the substrate of the PCB and are revealed at one side of the PCB, and the external terminals are integral with the substrate of the PCB and are revealed at the other side of the PCB; and a main body disposed on said one side of the PCB and having an opening constituting the cavity, and wherein the substrate of the PCB of the housing has one or more openings in a surface thereof, the internal terminals being recessed below the surface and revealed by the one or more openings.