[Issues to be solved]
Second bonding failures caused attached oxide of additive elements on high purity Au bonding wire are to be dissolved.
[Solution means]
Au alloy bonding wires comprising: 5 - 100 wt ppm Mg, 5 - 20 wt ppm In, 5 - 20 wt ppm Al, 5 - 20 wt ppm Yb, and Au residual is more than 99.995 wt % purity, and adding 5 - 20 wt ppm Ca, and for these alloys adding at least more than one element among 5 - 20 wt ppm La, 5 - 20 wt ppm Lu, 5 - 100 wt ppm Sn, 5 - 100 wt ppm Sr to the alloy, and/or, more over, adding 0.01 - 1.2 wt % Pd to these alloys. Bonding wire, which contains these trace additive elements .do not cause of disturbance by accumulated contamination, because of contamination, which formed at ball formation by micro discharge and at the first bonding to attached on tip of capillary, transferring to the wire at second bonding.