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Explore the latest trends in PCB design and manufacturing

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Explore the latest trends in PCB design and manufacturing

DFM in Practice: How to Do PCB Copper Pour Right — Solid vs Hatched, Thermal Relief, and Inner-Layer Copper Balance

With high-speed interfaces and dense layouts pushing EMI, thermal load, and thickness tolerance all to their limits, copper pour is no longer a step you clear by clicking auto-fill. Most R&D engineers know how to pour copper, but few realize that seemingly trivial choices — solid or hatched, how inner-layer copper is balanced — quietly determine EMI, solderability, board thickness, and even delamination risk. This article opens up the engineering details behind copper pour, from a manufacturing point of view.

8/9/2026

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Material Selection: Tg Is Not Your Max Operating Temperature — 4 Key Decisions for Choosing PCB Laminate

As automotive electronics, AI servers, and high-layer-count boards keep pushing operating temperatures and assembly thermal budgets higher, choosing a laminate's thermal grade is no longer as simple as "pick the expensive one." Yet many R&D engineers fall into the same trap when specifying Tg: treating it as the board's maximum operating temperature. The result is either over-specifying and padding cost needlessly, or under-specifying and quietly eating PTH cracking during reflow. This article breaks down — from a materials and manufacturing standpoint — what Tg actually represents, why it governs plated-through-hole reliability, and the four factors to weigh when selecting it.

8/7/2026

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Flex PCB (FPC) Design in Practice: 7 DFM Rules Every Engineer Should Know

As wearables, foldable phones, automotive sensor modules, and edge-AI devices keep pushing toward thinner, lighter, more three-dimensional form factors, the flex PCB (FPC) has gone from a niche option to the structural backbone of many products. Yet many Taiwan R&D engineers keep running into the same trap: they lay out an FPC using rigid-board rules, then hit pad detachment, gold-finger cracking, and depaneling failures at the prototype stage. The root cause is that an FPC is physically nothing like a rigid board. This article breaks down the seven areas where flex design most often goes wrong, framed from the manufacturing side as a DFM checklist you can hold up against your layout.

8/5/2026

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Industry Watch: The AI Super Cycle Is Redrawing the PCB Map — From 7% to 30% in Five Years

While the spotlight stays on GPUs and HBM, one set of numbers is quietly redrawing the PCB industry's map: AI server PCBs and substrates accounted for just 7% of the global market in 2024. According to Prismark's latest forecast presented at TPCA this year, that segment will reach $15.6 billion and a 16% share in 2026 — and close to 30% of the entire market by 2030. This is not a cyclical upswing; it is a structural reallocation. This article breaks down what the super cycle actually means for engineering teams, across demand, hardware, materials, and supply chain.

7/28/2026

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Design Practice: Hiding Resistors and Capacitors Inside the Board — Embedded Passives Design Essentials and Manufacturing Realities

As HDI density keeps climbing and wearables and robotics modules fight for every square millimeter, embedded passives — moving components from the surface into the board's inner layers — are shifting from a niche option to a standard weapon for high-density design. They free up surface area, eliminate solder joints, and cut parasitics. The price: wider tolerances, longer lead times, and several extra design checkpoints. This article organizes the design essentials, selection logic, and manufacturing realities of embedded resistors and capacitors.

7/27/2026

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Design Practice: The Complete Any-Layer HDI Guide — 7 Things to Know When a 0.4mm BGA Won't Escape

When main chips move to 0.4mm pitch and below while the enclosure refuses to grow, traditional through-hole-plus-dog-bone fanout hits a wall: drills too big, pads too close, reference planes shot full of holes. Any-layer HDI (also called ELIC, every-layer interconnect) exists for exactly this bottleneck — laser microvias are allowed between every pair of adjacent layers, so signals can step down through the board like a staircase, right under the component. This article organizes the design workflow, microvia rules, and manufacturing requirements so your first any-layer board doesn't cost you three reroutes.

7/26/2026