Industry News | 2019-03-10 20:30:11.0
The proliferation of tighter microvia densities and signal integrity requirements in printed boards within the electronics industry has revealed reliability concerns with microvia structures in high performance products. A number of IPC OEM member companies have approached IPC with examples of microvia failures in high-profile hardware that were not observed until after bare printed board fabrication, inspection and acceptance, including:
Industry News | 2022-01-29 13:09:17.0
U.S. circuit board sector is in worse trouble than semiconductors, with potentially dire consequences
Industry News | 2022-03-29 07:11:31.0
IPC is now accepting abstracts for technical paper presentations, technical posters, and professional development courses for IPC APEX EXPO 2023. The technical conference will be held January 21-26, 2023, and professional development courses will take place January 24-26, 2023, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego.
Industry News | 2017-05-15 15:41:33.0
IPC's Validation Services Program has awarded an IPC-4101 Qualified Products Listing (QPL) to Taiwan Union Technology Corporation (TUC), an electronics materials manufacturing company headquartered in Jhubei, Hsinchu County, Taiwan. TUC provides mass lamination services, copper clad laminates and prepregs to the global electronics industry. To earn the QPL, TUC successfully completed an intensive audit based on IPC's foremost standard on base materials for laminates and prepregs: IPC 4101, Specification for Base Materials for Rigid and Multilayer Printed Boards.
Industry News | 2022-09-14 07:08:12.0
IPC APEX EXPO 2023 Offers New Courses, New Instructors, and IPC E-Textiles
Industry News | 2018-12-08 03:24:24.0
RoHS Guide in Electronics: RoHS, WEEE and Lead-Free FAQ
Industry News | 2003-02-22 13:30:35.0
Trains all levels of program managers within the EMS industry in operations, project management, finance, contract management and leadership skills.
Industry News | 2011-05-23 15:41:12.0
It's a script straight out of the movies. Just replace "blood diamonds" with "blood metals" and begin with a scene that demonstrates the tens of millions of dollars in profit flowing into rebel mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), funding criminal networks and perpetrating horrific war crimes. In the movie, the U.S. government comes to the rescue by implementing a law that withholds resources from these groups, breaks the rebel mines and ends the atrocities.
Industry News | 2018-10-18 08:27:03.0
An Analysis of SMT Solder Paste Printing Defects