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Concerns With Silver Finish Component Leads

BGA re-balling process

Mixed Process Solder Joint Appearance, Smooth or Grainy?

Reflow Profile for Mixed Lead-Free and Leaded

Oxidation of Solder Balls During Secondary Reflow

Burned Chip Repair

Matte Black Solder Mask Defects

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U.S. Air Force Reports on Roswell

U.S. Air Force officials release a 231-page report dismissing claims of an alien spacecraft crash in Roswell, New Mexico, almost exactly 50 years earlier.
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June 24, 2022

Component Prices Continue to Rise so Prepare Now

TThe electronic component shortage is likely to get worse before it gets better. As a result, electronics prices are on track to rise this year – and it may not be until late 2023 before prices begin to fall. Electronics manufacturers can prepare now to manage upcoming electronics price increases, continuing shortages and longer-than-average lead times on important electronic components and raw materials. ...
EPS News

North American PCB Industry Sales Up 3.4 Percent in May
IPC announced today the May 2022 findings from its North American Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Statistical Program. The book-to-bill ratio stands at 1.03. Total North American ...
IPC

Bipolar transistors made from organic materials for the first time
Scientists in Germany claim to have developed bipolar transistors from organic materials, opening a path for flexible and transparent electronics. The study, led by Shu-Jen ...
The Register

Amazon Shows Off Impressive New Warehouse Robots
One year ago, we wrote about some "high-tech" warehouse robots from Amazon that appeared to be anything but. It was confusing, honestly, to see not just hardware ...
IEEE Spectrum

Technical Papers

Essential Practices for Gold Mitigation of Electronic Components

Nearshoring or Contract Manufacturing? Which Fits Your Business Model?

Solder Alloy Contribution to Robust Selective Soldering Process

The Four Roles of Inspection Data in a Smart Factory

Toward the Lights-out Factory

The Essential Guide for High-Reliability BGA Component Re-balling

Understanding X-ray Inspection versus X-ray Component Counters

Milling (Reworking) Underfilled Parts

The Importance of Solderability Testing

Advancing silicon photonics physical verification through innovation

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US tariffs on China a negotiating leverage
US tariffs on more than US$300 billion in annual imports from China provide significant leverage and are useful from a negotiating standpoint, US President Joe Biden's ...
Taipei Times

Atomic-scale quantum circuit marks major quantum computer breakthrough
Engineers in Sydney have demonstrated a quantum integrated circuit made up of just a few atoms. By precisely controlling the quantum states of the atoms, the new ...
New Atlas

NASA awards three contracts to design a nuclear power plant for the Moon
NASA and the Department of Energy have selected three companies to design concepts for a fission surface power system to provide nuclear power on the Moon. The ...
TechSpot

Assessing the Potential of SiC beyond the Automotive Industry
Silicon carbide (SiC) has come to be known as the successor of traditional Si IGBT devices in the automotive industry due to its higher switching frequencies, and higher junction ...
EE Times

Questions About Handling Solder Paste
We use lead-free solder and store it at a temperature of 4 to 5 degrees Celsius. What is the best practice for prepping this stored paste before use? Phil Zarrow and Jim Hall ...
Circuit Insight - Board Talk

Conquering New Challenges in a Post-Pandemic Landscape
The Covid-19 pandemic completely changed how we handle business, particularly where corporate relocations are concerned. We've seen how digitalization has ...
Entrepreneur

5G subscriptions to top 1 billion by the end of 2022
In a nutshell: 5G is the fastest growing mobile communications technology ever, and the build-out is only expected to accelerate in the coming years. In its June 2022 ...
TechSpot

Via Filling: Challenges in the Plating Process
This paper describes the function and principles behind BMV filling processes together with methods for non destructive testing of the filled structures.
Circuit Insight - Production Floor

Weak Consumer But Good Commercial Demand Produced a Flat Performance for PC Monitors in Q1 2022, according to IDC
New results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Monitor Tracker show that the global PC monitor market posted flat results in the first ...
IDC

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Southwest Systems Technology Now Offers X-ray Inspection from VJ Electronix
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Solderstar Celebrates 20 Years of Innovation
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SHENMAO America, Inc.

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