HERNDON, VA – iNEMI’s SnPb BGA Availability Task Group has scheduled a workshop for OEMs and the BGA supply base to meet Jan. 24 in the San Jose, CA area.
 
The workshop will address the needs of OEMs taking the lead (Pb) exemption from the RoHS Directive. iNEMI reportedly will develop ways to work with the BGA component supply base to support SnPb-compatible BGAs, assist with questions of long-term reliability, and develop other solutions. 
 
The group plans to create a list of critical BGA component families; estimate total available market (TAM) for these devices in SnPb assembly versions, and develop a general business case based on TAM.
 
Registration information is available at
 http://www.inemi.org/cms/projects/ese/SnPb_BGAs.html.