Answers to SMT Quiz
A few weeks ago, I posted an SMT quiz on my blog. We received 178 responses, which seemed very good to me. Working with my Indium Corpo...
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Take the SMT Quiz and Perhaps Win a Prize
Folks: Do you know how much copper is in SAC305 solder? What about the most typical solder paste powder diameter? These questions, and eight others, a...
Solution to Moore's Law
Folks, In a recent post, I discussed Moore’s Law. I challenged readers to solve for "a" and "b", from the equation a*2^(b*(y...
Still Much Hype Around AI and Industry 4.0
Folks, I recently read an article about “Lighthouse Factories” which appear to be implementations of Industry 4.0. It is encouraging that ...
Checking Moore’s Law
Folks, Moore’s Law was developed by Gordon Moore in 1965. It predicted that the number of transistors in integrate circuits would double approxi...
Is Quantum Computing Emerging to Solve Practical Problems?
Folks, I read with interest Zohair Mehkri’s SMTAI 2020 paper entitled How Quantum Computing (QC) will Revolutionize Electronics Manufacturing. I...
The Rule of 72
The Rule of 72 Four years ago, the big boss, 6'6" tall, 350 pound Mac Savage, said that the goal for the sales of a new product was at least...
AI and Autonomous Vehicle Challenges: Common Sense, Flexibility, Dexterity, and Situational Awareness
Folks, I have been following advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous vehicles (AV) for some time now. At first, I was a cautious, then...
High Purity Tin for EUV Lithography
High purity tin is used in next generation EUV lithography tools to create light at 13.5nm. Indium Corporation produces high purity tin beyond the sta...
Autonomous Vehicles Even Farther Out in Time
Folks, Readers of this blog will remember that I have been a skeptic of self-driving cars emerging in the near term. I am even less sanguine today. A ...
Malachite: The Copper Ore that Started Civilization
Copper smelting was critically important to the development of civilization - and it was a miracle it ever began. Perhaps the beauty of this ore led i...