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Components Falling Off During Reflow
Can excessive solder paste volume contribute to components falling off the bottom of the board during topside reflow?
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Process Engineer, Astronautics

Swaroop Pawar
PCBA Industrialization, Schneider Electric

Kay Parker
Technical Support Engineer, Indium Corporation

Tony Lentz
Field Applications, FCT Assembly

Rick Kompelien
Principal Product Engineer, Benchmark Electronics, Inc.

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October 22, 2021

Component shortages finally catch up to Apple

Apple up to this point has largely seemed immune to the global chip and component shortages that have plagued other hardware makers, but it would seem that the company’s time ahead of the situation may have come to an end. A quick check of Apple’s website reveals that virtually all of the ...
TechSpot

Intel shares fall after component shortages hurt PC chip business
Intel shares fell more than 8% in extended trading on Thursday on a weaker-than-expected sales report and after the company blamed an industry-wide component ...
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Enhance the Shock Performance of Ultra-Large BGA Components
A study on the rubber standoffs and gaskets. The effectiveness of rubber standoffs and rubber gaskets as shock/vibration mitigation have been evaluated ...
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Cost Effective 3D Glass Microfabrication
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Selective Soldering High Thermal Mass and Fine-Pitch Components

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Inductive Soldering for High Thermal Demand Applications

X-Ray Supports Solder Paste Development

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Resilience in Space: Designing Radiation-Tolerant Systems
Space is easily the most challenging environment for IC designers. Without Earth's atmosphere to protect them, electronic systems are vulnerable to ...
EE Times

Air Taxis Are Safe—According to the Manufacturers
Electric Vertical Take-Off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for urban commuting are currently under development by more than a dozen different companies. ...
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Samsung now lets you design your own flip smartphone
Smartphone design hasn't varied much in years and customers are typically beholden to whatever decisions manufacturers make. But during a virtual press event on, Samsung ...
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Bill Gates says climate tech will produce 8 to 10 Teslas, a Google, an Amazon and a Microsoft
Bill Gates, the fourth-wealthiest person in the world, doesn't need to make money by investing in climate change. But for those who are looking to strike it rich, Gates sees ...
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Apple to Require Daily Covid Tests for Unvaccinated Employees
Every time an unvaccinated Apple employee works from the office instead of remotely, they'll be required to take a covid-19 test, according to Bloomberg. That outlet ...
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Huawei launches smartphone overseas despite U.S. sanctions crippling its mobile phone business
Huawei launched its mid-range Nova 9 smartphone overseas for the first time on Thursday, starting in Europe. The Chinese smartphone giant's business overseas ...
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Bridging the Wide Bandgap
Wide-bandgap (WBG) materials are gradually surviving cost-benefit analyses for power management and other applications, with electric vehicles likely driving uptake of costly ...
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Microsoft’s new $1,500 folding phone is a huge improvement from last year
Microsoft's $1,500 Surface Duo 2, the company's second folding phone, launches Thursday. I've been using it for about a week and it's a huge improvement over the ...
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Samsung SDI begins test run of cathode factory in S. Korea
South Korean battery maker Samsung SDI Co. said Thursday it has began its test run of a cathode-producing factory, jointly set up with a local cathode manufacturer. ...
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