Simple and inexpensive semiconductor devices in earlier generations of electronic systems were easily discarded or recycled when they were damaged either before or during the printed circuit board ...

Electronic devices continue to shrink in size with advancement in chip fabrication technology. Packaging technology has responded with improved formats to present these chips for assembly to PCBs.

SINGAPORE — ST Assembly Test Services Ltd. this week announced availability of a thinner version of its small-thin plastic ball-grid array (STPBGA) package, which reduces the height to 1.2 mm compared ...

Diagram of a ball grid array (BGA). Engineers can use digital image correlation (DIC) to assess its thermal expansion or warpage due to thermal, mechanical and thermo-mechanical loads. DIC is an ...

The Ball Grid Array, or BGA package is no longer the exclusive preserve of large, complex chips on computer motherboards: today even simple microcontrollers are available with those little solder ...

An update on flip chip ball grid array (FCBGA) package development as quality and reliability requirements increase for larger and larger package form factors and approaches that should be taken to ...

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spirit Electronics, a value-added microelectronics distributor, is rolling out additional capacity for its automated BGA reballing service. Spirit’s high-efficiency ...

Apple is continuing its work on the upcoming "M2" chip with help from Samsung Electro-Mechanics, ET News reports. Samsung Electro-Mechanics supplies the flip chip ball grid array (FC-BGA), a printed ...

BGA (ball grid array) packaging demand for high-pixel and large-size automotive CMOS image sensor (CIS) chips remains in high gear, but lower-end car-use CIS products processed with wafer-level chip ...

Offered in ceramic ball grid array (BGA) packages, the CHC-Precision series resistor networks deploy all circuits on the bottom side of the component in order to eliminate wrap-around terminations.

Taiwan-based ASE Technology and Unimicron Technology have both seized flip chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) packaging and related substrate orders for Apple's just unveiled M2 processors, along with ...

Compared to through-hole construction, inspecting SMD construction is a whole other game. Things you thought were small before are almost invisible now, and making sure solder got where it’s supposed ...