Conventional configuration of a lead frame, particularly a lead frame in a Lead-on-Chip package, is substituted by one having inward ends of leads thereof arranged in unprecedented ways, resulting in bigger gap between any two adjacent inward ends of inner leads, leading to bigger Inner Lead Pitch of a lead frame in which the space available is inherently limited. It is by the new configuration that an IC packaging process can be immunized against the difficulty resulting from too small Inner Lead Pitch of a lead frame, and the bottle neck in the process of packaging an IC subject to the tendency of minimizing the size of an IC can thus be overcome.