One of the most common assumptions PCB designers make when investigating ultra HDI (UHDI) technology is that every layer must be built with ultra-fine geometries using semi-additive processing (SAP) ...

One of the PCB design community’s greatest talents is hiding in plain sight. Ask a room full of high school students what they want to be when they grow up and you'll hear doctor, lawyer, engineer, ...

Supply chain disruptions may be inevitable, but the ability to design around them doesn’t have to be an afterthought. If it feels like supply chains are back in the headlines again, that’s because ...

Thousands of attendees gathered at ECTC to explore the latest advances in advanced packaging, AI-driven design, heterogeneous integration and thermal management. More than 2,700 attendees conversed ...

Knowing which PCB specification changes require new tooling and which do not can help designers and buyers reduce nonrecurring engineering costs while avoiding unnecessary delays. NRE (nonrecurring ...

The Printed Circuit Engineering Association (PCEA) this fall will feature a dedicated program of electronics assembly tracks at PCB West, including 10 presentations led by leading practitioners in ...

Despite rapid advances in artificial intelligence, humanoid robots still face major hurdles in mobility, communication and energy efficiency. With all the attention, headlines, discussion, ...

That’s how long I’ve sat in this chair as an editor for this publication. Long enough that a reader or two out there was born right about the time I took the job, in January 2000, first as editor in ...

High-performance computing has moved out of its niche to become a mainstream requirement and continues to rely on human skills to deliver its optimum potential. Historically, supercomputing has been a ...

Most EMS companies do not have actual design services in-house and at best only offer design for supply chain (DFSC), design for manufacturing (DfM), and design for test (DfT, which is just a point-to ...

Yet when it’s time to send a design to manufacturing, many organizations still fall back on a process that hasn’t fundamentally changed in decades – export Gerbers, generate drill files, create ...

Silence may be golden, but it’s terrible customer service. Somebody owed us money for a project we performed in October and November 2025. They needed x-rays – instantaneous, naturally – to validate a ...