Patent ID: 7705438

Claim:
An electronic component comprising: a chip island including a top side and an underside that opposes the top side; a semiconductor chip including contact surfaces disposed on an active top side of the semiconductor chip and a back surface that opposes the active top side and is arranged on the top side of the chip island; flat conductors arranged to surround the chip island, the flat conductors including top sides and undersides opposing the top sides, the top sides of the flat conductors including contact connection surfaces; and electrical connections extending between the contact surfaces of the semiconductor chip and the contact connection surfaces of the flat conductors; wherein the semiconductor chip, the electrical connections and the top sides of the flat conductors and of the chip island are embedded in a plastic encapsulation compound, and the undersides of the flat conductors and of the chip island include solder deposits and anti-wetting regions of a metal layer that surround the solder deposits and the metal layer is unwettable by solder material.