Description For Shinko Electric Industries, it's a package deal. Semiconductor packaging, that is. Founded in 1946, the company is one of the world's largest manufacturers of integrated circuit (IC) leadframes, ball grid arrays, and other packaging types for semiconductors. As cell phones, portable game players, and other electronic products continue to shrink in size, the packaging of the chips powering the product becomes a crucial aspect of design. Shinko has helped chip makers by steadily shrinking the sizes of its packages, and by coming up with new packaging types such as flip-chips. The company also provides IC packaging services on a contract basis. Fujitsu owns half of Shinko Electric Industries.