Surface-mount technology (SMT) is evolving far beyond its roots as a way of assembling packaged chips onto printed circuit boards without through-holes. It is now moving inside packages that will ...

Taiwan-based equipment suppliers engaged in the PCB and IC substrate sectors have seen order visibility extended to the second half of next year, thanks to their clients increasing capital investments ...

The PCB industry is making large upgrades. The largest beneficiaries of the AI boom are IC substrate makers that are part of ...

FREUDENSTADT, Germany, Oct. 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SCHMID Group (NASDAQ: SHMD), a global equipment maker and solution provider for Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) and IC-Substrate manufacturing – ...

FR4 is FR4, right? For a lot of PCB designs, the answer is yes — the particular characteristics of the substrate material don’t impact your design in any major way. But things get a little weird up in ...

That’s a question many on the heterogeneous integration (HI) side of the semiconductor industry are asking. Unfortunately, the answer is not straightforward. But before we get to answering that, let’s ...

The entire power-electronic sector, including RF applications and systems involving high-speed signals, is evolving toward solutions that offer increasingly complex functionalities in ever-smaller ...

Printed circuit board (PCB) was introduced as a replacement for bulky wiring circuits almost a century ago. Today, it’s the core of the electronics industry, supporting the latest designs like IoT, AI ...