Patent ID: 7074651

Claim:
A method for manufacturing integrated circuits, which comprises the steps of: a) removably adhering a wafer to a metal frame utilizing an adhesive; b) dicing the wafer into a plurality of chips; c) removing the plurality of chips from the metal frame and attaching one of the plurality of chips to each of a plurality of lead frame units of a lead frame; d) wire-bonding the electrical contacts of one of the plurality of chips to a plurality of leads of each of the plurality of lead frame units utilizing a plurality of metal wires; e) applying an encapsulant material over the plurality of metal wires of connected to each of the plurality of lead frame units; f) curing the encapsulant material to form an encapsulated body, opposing ends and bottoms of the plurality of leads of each of the plurality of lead frame units extend outwardly from the encapsulated body; and g) forming a plurality of integrated circuit units by separating each of the plurality of lead frame units and removing selected portions of the lead frame, each of the plurality of integrated circuit units includes a chip electrically connected to the plurality of leads of one of the plurality of lead frame units utilizing a plurality of metal wires encapsulated by the encapsulated body.