Is plain old FR-4 (also known as “Glass Epoxy”) PCB material suitable for use in RF designs[1]? This question comes up time and again. Many say no, fewer say yes – who's right? As I have published ...

Printed circuit boards can be square, round, octagonal, or whatever shape you desire. But there’s little choice when it comes to the third dimension: most PCBs are flat and rigid. Sure, you can make ...

I am not a PCB designer, but I have worked with enough of them over the years to empathize with the challenges that they face to find the ideal balance between board cost and performance for a given ...

The people behind the PocketNC heard you like CNC PCB mills, so they milled you a PCB mill out of PCB. They announced their surprising new open source hardware product, a pocket sized 3-axis CNC ...

The HM Class of materials matches each layer type in an AI accelerator stackup with a material purpose-built for it: HM50 for ...

Prices for upstream PCB materials including copper foil, glass cloth and resin are set to rally in 2021 as supply is expected to be increasingly short of demand throughout the year, according to ...

Researchers at the University of Washington have made a big breakthrough, developing a PCB that is able to be recycled several times over while losing very little material in the process. This ...

Despite price hikes by upstream material suppliers, PCB makers are finding it difficult to pass increased cost downstream. PCB material prices began to rebound from the Lunar New Year in 2010. CCL ...

Blueshift, a US-based specialist in advanced materials, has unveiled PhaseBlue 1500, the first product in its Series Circuit Materials (SCM) line. New PCB material developed for high-frequency ...