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Texas Instruments has introduced a refined version of its nickel/palladium (NiPd) finish for integrated circuit (IC) package leads. The enhanced version of lead finish is nickel/palladium/gold (NiPdAu). TI has a long and successful history with the NiPd finish. There are more than 40-billion devices in the field with TI NiPd-finished leads. TI introduced the NiPd finish in 1989 and many papers a