Has the Time Come for Tin-Bismuth Solders?
Folks, When the industry was preparing to transition to lead-free solders almost ten years ago (can it have been that......
Folks, When the industry was preparing to transition to lead-free solders almost ten years ago (can it have been that......
Folks, Many people have been infatuated by the price of gold in recent months, but the price of silver has also skyrocketed. In 2000 silver was a...
At the time of writing, the price of silver (Ag) was approaching the USD$50/tr.oz. (Troy ounce) level, and threatening to go higher. With 1 Troy ounce...
Folks, It was Wednesday evening and I had just finished a brief pitch on applications of SPC to a group of twenty. I was followed by Jim Ha...
Folks, HIS iSuppli performed a teardown analysis of an iPad . They estimate that the cost of the bill of materials (BOM) is $336....
Folks, I thought I would take a stab at listing the minuses, pluses, and “it’s a wash” aspects of assembling with lead-free (LF) sol...
A quick trip to discuss roadmapping with one of the world’s top processor manufacturers, and a visit to discuss Pb-free power die-attach materia...
This week a customer in Asia asked why one of our new epoxy fluxes was not allowing the package-on-package (PoP) device to be picked up from the dippi...
I just received a customer inquiry regarding a phenomenon that is little studied and even less quantified; “How many times can I reflow a s...
Folks, Patty had been working with engineering on a new product that needed a very precise and controlled volume of the stencil printed “brick&...