Tag Archives: printed circuit boards

6 PCB Design mistakes to avoid designing printed circuit boards

Segments included in this process for critical design reviews, following completion of the schematic, can include review of initial components placement on the correct PCB form-factor board envelope. Then, after the routing is complete…
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Asia market trends in printed circuit boards

Unfortunately, the flowers are not in full bloom for Japanese printed circuit board manufacturers. They continue to dig themselves out of a hole while their Asian counterparts …

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Review and projections for Japanese printed circuit board business

n the short term, the single-sided flexible circuits segment will perform adequately relative to sales; however, all signs point to a down turn next year. Performance for the rigid module substrates segment is dependant on positive trends from the global semiconductor market as well as fluctuations in exchange rates against the Japanese yen.
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Printed circuit board and related materials trends

Many mid-sized flexible circuits manufacturers displayed 20 microns pitch and finer circuits for single-sided and double-sided circuits. A few companies employed the semi-additive process for pitches finer than …
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28.3% drop in printed circuit board shipments

Sales and orders improved in March over the first two months of the year due to seasonal effects, but year-on-year growth in rigid PCBs is still down significantly due …

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12 Questions for the Occam Process before buying the farm

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The Occam Process is touted to be environmentally compliant or, friendly. However, the process uses photolithography and copper plating procedures. Aren’t these processes quite ‘dirty’? Won’t these processes, which will be new to most potential adopters, be a challenge to implement?
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Printed circuit board industry to see global revenues reach upwards of $76 billion by 2012

Global revenues for printed circuit boards (PCB) are given for a multitude of categories and the report details how regional shifts in PCB production and usage will continue through …
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Printed circuit board (PCB) demand change in market

June 1, 2007 – Investment bank Bear Stearns & Co. releases its interpretation of IPC’s April printed circuit board three (3) month rigid PCB book-to-bill industry survey results.
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