At the beginning of January, PCD&F/CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY asked a number of PCB industry executives to answer a handful of questions about the upcoming year.
Simulated and experimental conclusions of temperature imbalances show significantly more efficient cooling around the outside of corners.
The last electronics trade show of the year has held on Dec. 14 for three days at Tokyo Big Sight.
Moore’s law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. As the cost of computer power to the consumer falls, the cost for producers to fulfill Moore's law follows an opposite trend: R&D, manufacturing and test costs have increased steadily with each new generation of chips. Rising manufacturing costs are an important consideration for the sustaining of Moore's law.