AI and Energy Storage Competing for PCB Capacity: What It Means On August 18, 2026, Energy Talk reported that continued expansion of AI computing infrastructure is affecting upstream electronic component supply for the energy storage industry. Lead times for some energy storage chips have extended from approximately four weeks to…

PCB High Speed Serial Lane Layout: Laying Out a Fast Lane Buyers and engineers often focus on the finished product and forget the production line behind it. In practice, most field failures can be traced back to process decisions made during assembly. Understanding PCB high speed serial lane layout gives…

Thick Copper PCB Demand Rises as Power Semiconductor Capacity Expands On September 1, 2026, Hua Hong Semiconductor announced that the company and its wholly owned subsidiary Shanghai Hua Hong would join Wuxi Xihong Guoxin Phase II, Huaxin Dingxin and the State Development Corporation in a capital increase for Wuxi Hua…

Why FPC Right Angle Traces Fail: Signal, Etch and Bend Effects In flex circuit design, trace geometry is one of the factors that most directly determines final product performance. Right angle routing is simple to draw and looks orderly on screen, yet professional design standards treat it as something to…

PCB Clock Jitter Reduction: Making the Clock Steady Modern electronics depend on boards that are assembled correctly the first time. Every product – a phone, a charger, a medical instrument or an industrial controller – relies on thousands of solder joints that must conduct current for years. This article explains…

HDI Laser Microvia Size Requirements: Diameter, Aspect Ratio and Wall Quality Laser microvia technology is the enabling process behind high density interconnect boards. By focusing laser energy to drill features at the micron scale, it overcomes the precision limits of mechanical drilling and supports hole diameters from 0.05 mm to…

PCB PLL Loop Filter Layout: Keeping the Loop Quiet Electronics manufacturing has become a discipline of small details. Solder paste volumes, placement accuracy, temperature profiles and inspection limits all add up to the final result. This guide looks at PCB PLL loop filter layout from the perspective of a PCBA…

CoWoS-L Ramp and the mSAP PCB Manufacturing Shift On August 28, 2026, equipment supplier Chipmore Microelectronics disclosed details from a recent institutional research session. PCB business revenue reached 880 million RMB in the first half of 2026, representing approximately 79.6 percent of total revenue with a PCB gross margin of…

WMCM Packaging and the Shift to Substrate-Level Mainboards On August 20, 2026, NDTV Profit cited supply chain information indicating that an image purporting to show an iPhone 18 Pro mainboard points to a new package architecture for the A20 Pro chip, with a noticeably larger neural processing area than the…

PCB Mixer Layout: Feeding a Mixer Cleanly Modern electronics depend on boards that are assembled correctly the first time. Every product – a phone, a charger, a medical instrument or an industrial controller – relies on thousands of solder joints that must conduct current for years. This article explains PCB…