For the world’s top PCB manufacturers, Apple and Samsung can make (or break) you.

For those who believe nothing changes in printed circuits, think back just 16 years to the first edition of the NTI-100. The biggest names in PCB manufacturing included Photocircuits, Lucent and Hadco, among others. TTM was just being incorporated. The US and Japan were battling for worldwide bare board supremacy. Taiwan was a relative newcomer, China an after-thought.

Requirements for no-clean solder paste to increase device chemical, thermal and electrical reliability.

Confusion reigns over first article inspection and whether it is a qualification requirement. (It isn’t.)

Or why parts should be “implemented,” not just “installed.”