To the uninitiated, a look back at the past few years of the CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY Top 50 would suggest the industry has been growing and at a strong pace.
Fullerton, CA-based Golden West Tech has been assembling printed circuit boards for California’s industrial, aerospace, and medical markets for more than 40 years.
A solid state drive or disk is a data storage device that functions like the traditional hard disk drives and is used on tablet PCs, laptops, servers and network storage for cloud computing.
Panelization, also known as the processing of boards in an array format, keeps small boards attached to each other within a single, larger substrate.
Over the past five years, laminated-based chip embedding has taken a huge step toward industrialization. Meanwhile different products in the low- and medium-power application are commercially available.
QFNs, microBGAs and 0201s keep showing up everywhere. They used to appear only on boards requiring miniaturization; now they are used on revisions of legacy products, bringing a new set of headaches for process engineers.