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Real Time with... productronica 2023: Neil Chamberlain Discusses Polar’s Vast Database
November 21, 2023 | Real Time with...productronicaEstimated reading time: Less than a minute
Neil Chamberlain, European sales manager for Polar Instruments, and Editor Pete Starkey discuss how the company responds to industry's need to analyze a huge variety of materials. Neil explains how Polar has rolled with the punches as the number of materials continues to grow each year.
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Happy’s Tech Talk #28: The Power Mesh Architecture for PCBs
05/07/2024 | Happy Holden -- Column: Happy’s Tech TalkA significant decrease in HDI substrate production cost can be achieved by reducing the number of substrate layers from conventional through-hole multilayers and microvia multilayers of eight, 10, 12 (and more), down to four. Besides reducing direct processing steps, yield will increase as defect producing operations are eliminated.