The low cost and generally competitive quality of printed circuit boards (PCBs) produced in China has tempted ever more electronics manufacturers worldwide to offshore their PCB sourcing to that country over the past decade.South Africa has been far from immune from this phenomenon, and nor will the country be exempt from an impending copper shortage, warns local supplier Cirtech EDA’s business development director, Nechan Naicker.Gaining a global perspectiveCirtech EDA’s existence dates back to early 2015, when local PCB manufacturer Cirtech joined forces with the PCB sourcing arm of EDA Tech...
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In recent years, the PCB industry has become a global industry, the world has more than 2800 printed circuit board production enterprises, the scale has more than 50 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for more than the total output value of the electronic component industry is 1/4, the whole industry in the largest proportion, and a rising trend, is the main pillar of the future development of electronic component industry. But by 2008 the outbreak of the international financial crisis and the debt crisis in 2012 and other markets, the global PCB industry through a difficult period, with the ris...
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PCB (circuit board printed), the Chinese name for the printed circuit board, is an important electronic components, is the support of electronic components, electronic components, electrical connection of the provider. Industrial transfer achievements of China's PCB industry big country, the most important power comes from two aspects of the cost and application of the industrial chain.China's PCB industry in the global market position will continue to upgradeConsulting industry analysts pointed out that over the past ten years, the world's PCB continues to migrate to Asia, especia...
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Are you thinking of using a rigid/flex format for a PCB? If so, the first and most obvious answer to the question ‘why?’ is to make use of the flexibility and to permit movement between two conventional boards – even if the movement is limited to providing vibration tolerance.Flex circuits that actually flex in regular use can, however, be considered a special case; very often, the intent is to provide an efficient interconnect between two boards that do not lie in the same plane. In such cases, the flexible part may only flex during final assembly of the product and never do so again.Flex-rig...
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It may seem something of an understatement, but Phil Mayo, director of sales for Altium UK, believes: “The PCB is important.” And perhaps that’s one reason why the workshop and conference sessions addressing PCB design at last year’s Electronics Design Show (EDS) attracted record numbers of engineers.In his workshop presentation, Mayo noted: “For decades, the humble PCB has been the cornerstone of all electronic products. Today, perceptions of the PCB range from a simple interconnect medium to a fundamental component of a complex electronic system. Regardless of the perception, the reality is ...
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Capacitors are like batteries in that they store and release energy. However, capacitors use separated electrical charges, rather than chemical reactions, to store energy. The charged particles enable energy to be stored and released very quickly. Imagine an electric vehicle that can accelerate from zero to 60 miles per hour at the same rate as a gasoline-powered sports car. There are no batteries that can power that type of acceleration because they release their energy too slowly. Capacitors, however, could be up to the job -- if they contained the right materials. NC State physicist D...
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Oct. 21, 2015, was the day that Doc Brown and Marty McFly landed in the future in their DeLorean, with time travel made possible by a "flux capacitor." While the flux capacitor still conjures sci-fi images, capacitors are now key components of portable electronics, computing systems and electric vehicles. In contrast to batteries, which offer high storage capacity but slow delivery of energy, capacitors provide fast delivery but poor storage capacity. A great deal of effort has been devoted to improving this feature -- known asenergy density -- of dielectric ca...
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Advanced Circuits, North America’s 3rd largest printed circuit board fabricator, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire certain assets from Micom Circuits of New Brighton, MN. With over 50 years of excellence in technical advances, Micom Circuits has earned acclaim from some of America’s largest technology companies. With this agreement, Advanced Circuits, an industry innovator for many years in the commercial PCB area, further strengthens its position in the complex medical and high-reliability, military/aerospace marketplace.This agreement along with...
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IPC – Association Connecting Electronics Industries and the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) will host a conference series on “Critical and Emerging Environmental Product Requirements” this June.The conference series, to be held in the Boston, Chicago and Silicon Valley areas on June 6, 8, and 10, respectively, will feature well-known United Kingdom (UK) regulators Steve Andrews, head of the product regulation and producer responsibility team at the UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra); and Dave Symons, contract manager at the Department for Business, In...
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2016
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China has developed a new electronic paper, a huge breakthrough that will catapultthe material to a new level.The new material has been heralded as "the world's first graphene electronic paper,"by Chen Yu, general manager of Guangzhou OED Technologies, which developed it inpartnership with a company in Chongqing.Graphene is the world's strongest and lightest known material; a single layer ofgraphene is only 0.335 nanometers thick, and it can conduct heat and electricity. Thematerial can be used to create hard or flexible graphene displays, used in electronicproducts such as e...
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2016
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Rogers Corporation will be exhibiting at the upcoming Del Mar show May 4th and 5th at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in San Diego, CA. Representatives from Rogers Corp. will be exhibiting at Booth #622, with information and insight on the use of their circuit materials, including 92ML™ laminates & prepregs, ULTRALAM 3850HT, CLTE-XT, and RO3003 laminates. Rogers will also be previewing its new material system developed for extremely low loss digital applications.92ML thermally enhanced laminates and prepregs are specifically engineered and manufactured to meet the demands of high p...
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2016
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Introduction: Product and Market OverviewPassive electronic components considered as specialty parts are high dollar, low volume products whose pricing is secondary to quality. These products have the highest operating margins and represent the smaller percentage of global passive component revenues, accounting for about 13% of global capacitor, resistor and inductor revenues in fiscal year 2015.In this MarketEYE article, we take a closer look at specialty passive components that are consumed in value-added and application specific market segments on a global basis. Such components are general...
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2016
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