80 PCB007 MAGAZINE I JUNE 2019
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EPTE Newsletter: Global Electronics
Industry Continues to Decline E
Sales from consumer electronics are expected
to slip this year, continuing a decline that be-
gan in December 2018. The Taiwanese PCB in-
dustry was first to signal stormy days ahead,
and data from the global semiconductor indus-
try for the same month backed up this gloomy
forecast.
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Trouble in Your Tank:
OSP Performance—Effect of Film
Thickness and Microetch E
Two often overlooked perfor-
mance attributes for organic
solderability preservatives
(OSPs) are the organic film
thickness and the topography
of the copper after microetch.
Film thickness up to an extent
is critical. However, the copper topography
and surface preparation also play a role. Thus,
you should not overlook the critical nature of
the overall OSP film thickness. Read on.
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Super PCB's Jessica Zhang on LEDs
and Other Trending Business Areas E
In an interview with I-Con-
nect007 at the recent West
Penn SMTA Expo, Super
PCB Program Manager Jessi-
ca Zhang provides an over-
view of the company and
shares new business trends
they're seeing, including LEDs, wearable de-
vices, and more.
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Creating Smart Surfaces with
Electronic Functionality E
Of all of the technical user
presentations I attended at the
AltiumLive design summit in
Munich, the one I found most
fascinating introduced an in-
novative technology that en-
couraged a bit of lateral think-
ing and appealed to my creative side: the IMSE,
or injection-moulded structural electronics.
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