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At SEMICON West, I caught up with Allen Phung, head of sales at Koh Young America, where we pivoted from our more traditional focus on SMT-related tech to talking about semiconductors and advanced packaging. Koh Young’s semiconductor business provides inspection and metrology systems for advanced packaging, including micro-solder deposits, high-density substrates, and wafer-level packaging, addressing the demanding requirements as components shrink and interconnect complexity grows.

Ask engineers how to design electronics for extreme environments, and you’ll hear plenty of confident answers, like “Use thicker copper” or “Add a heat sink.” That advice is useful, but it is not enough. When electronics fail in harsh environments because of temperature, shock, and vibration, it is rarely due to a single obvious mistake. More often, failure results from a chain of small, “good enough” decisions that cannot withstand extreme stress.

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