Automotive PCB Design: From Basics to HDI Technology An automotive board rarely fails because the circuit idea was wrong. It fails because the copper, the laminate and the drilled holes were not matched to the environment under the hood. Heat, vibration and voltage spikes act on every layer at once.…

Semiconductor Equipment PCBA: What Zero-Defect Delivery Requires In August 2026, Shanghai Aishina Electronic Technology Group was reported to have begun producing domestic immersion deep ultraviolet lithography hardware, with the first units planned for delivery in 2026 to SMIC, Hua Hong Semiconductor and ChangXin Memory Technologies. The 2026 target output is…

Automotive PCB Orders Rise on AI Server Demand Automotive PCB buyers now compete with a second demand stream. AI server builders are ordering high-multilayer boards in volume, and the same laminate, copper foil and plating capacity serves both markets. Fab shops report long lead times on high-layer counts and low-loss…

HVLP Copper Foil and the Material Bottleneck in AI Server PCBs On August 9, 2026, supply chain information indicated that HVLP, or hyper very low profile, copper foil, a key material for M9 grade high speed copper clad laminate, is facing a pronounced supply-demand gap approaching 50 percent. Processing fees…

PCB Warp Control for 20+ Layer Boards: Five Points That Decide Yield “The prototype was fine, but production warps” is one of the most common complaints from buyers of high layer count PCBs. When board layer count exceeds 20, thickness exceeds 3 mm, or the stackup is asymmetric, warping becomes…

EV Charger PCBA: 600kW Liquid-Cooled Power Module Manufacturing As Chinese charging hardware makers expand into more than 90 countries and regions, the PCBA inside a 600 kW liquid-cooled ultra-fast charger power module has become a decisive factor in whether a product passes overseas certification and whether it runs reliably for…

SMT Solder Paste Printing When Tall Components Block the Squeegee On August 21 and 22, 2026, a patent covering an irregular PCB printing machine and printing method was published, addressing solder paste printing on boards that have raised structures on their top surface. The approach uses vision recognition combined with…

AI Server PCBA: Quality Control With 440,000 MLCCs Per Rack In August 2026, MLCC supply for AI servers entered its strongest price cycle in nearly a decade. Samsung Electro-Mechanics raised MLCC prices by approximately 30 percent from August 1, with some high capacitance MLCCs for AI servers rising 60 to…

High Frequency FCCL: Where Flex PCB Materials Are Heading Through August 2026, progress in domestic high frequency, high speed, low dielectric loss flexible copper clad laminate attracted renewed market attention. Company reports and recent research disclosures describe a composite tech combining fluorine-modified polyimide with expanded PTFE, used with an adhesive-free…

Logistics Robot PCB and PCBA at Million-Unit Scale On September 9, 2026, the JD Global Technology Explorer Conference was held in Beijing, where JD Logistics presented its Super Brain and Wolf Pack robot product portfolio for the first time and announced plans to procure 3 million robots, 1 million unmanned…