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April 12, 2021

PC Shipments Show Continued Strength in Q1 2021

Global shipments of traditional PCs, including desktops, notebooks, and workstations, grew 55.2% year over year during the first quarter of 2021 (1Q21), according to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. While PCs remain in extremely high demand, the growth rate benefitted from the shortages faced ...
IDC

Ingenuity's Chief Pilot Explains How to Fly a Helicopter on Mars
On April 11, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity will take to the skies of Mars for the first time. It will do so fully autonomously, out of necessity--the time delay ...
IEEE Spectrum

AV Foxes Guarding Public Hen House
Picture the scene: A young family goes grocery shopping in Arizona. On approaching the store entrance, a group of scientists spray the unsuspecting family with an ...
EE Times

US imposes sanctions on Chinese computer makers
US President Joe Bidens administration added seven Chinese supercomputer research labs and manufacturers to a US export blacklist amid a dispute with Beijing over ...
Taipei Times

Technical Papers

Eight Steps to Ensure PCB Assembly Success

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ENEPIG Deposit Enhancement Achieves Ultimate Goal: Thicker, Lower Porosity Gold

Meeting Critical Medical Demands with X-ray Inspection

How continuous reflow monitoring supports lean manufacturing

Using True3D Inspection Data as a Process Control Tool in a Smart Factory

Selective Soldering Fine Pitch Components on High Thermal Mass Assembly

An Engineer's Guide to Testing and Evaluating The Performance of Desiccant Bags

High-Performance, Light and Moisture Dual-Curable Encapsulant

Smaller Components and Increasing Placement Density

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Chip woes: GM, Ford pause more production for deepening shortage
Automakers are making more production adjustments and cancellations this week as they continue to grapple with a semiconductor shortage costing valuable manufacturing ...
Detroit News

How Passengers With Disabilities Can Drive The Autonomous Vehicle Revolution
According to Elon Musk in addition to a host of automotive and transportation experts, autonomous vehicles were supposed to be a familiar feature of the modern-day ...
Forbes

Apple: iMessage on Android 'will hurt us more than help us'
Apple's services purposefully lock consumers into the iPhone ecosystem, preventing them from making an easy switch from iOS to Android, and iMessage is among the ...
TechSpot

DoD Opts for Microsoft Meatware: HoloLens + Azure
Beyond a new revenue stream which has already driven a higher stock price, the contract Microsoft recently announced to deliver its HoloLens 2 virtual reality headset ...
EE Times

6G Mobile Communications to Utilize AI to Control Devices
The 6th generation of mobile communications promises higher data rates, shorter latency, and increased densities of terminal devices.
Circuit Insight - Technology Briefing

Amazon's win in union fight shows harsh realities facing labor movement
Amazon.com Inc's fierce resistance to unionization, skepticism among workers that organizing could get them a better deal and decisions on election parameters all ...
Reuters

US Blacklists China's Phytium for Making Missiles Using Western Tech
Tianjin Phytium Information Technology Co. is one of seven companies that the US put on its Entity List after the Washington Post reported that China used American ...
EE Times

Via-In Pad Plated Over (VIPPO) Design Considerations
This work has evaluates BGA packaging and PCB design parameters to characterize their influence on double-reflow solder separation failure mode for mixed VIPPO ...
Circuit Insight - Analysis Lab

China harming its own economy
Early last month, China's rubber-stamp legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC), officially approved the country's 14th Five-Year Plan. The strategy was ...
Taipei Times

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Industry Press

Another New Chemistry, Another Award: KYZEN Wins Its 15th NPI Award
KYZEN

ANDA Awarded for iCoat-6 High Precision Selective Conformal Coating System
Anda Technologies

Dr. Michael Wenzel is the new Managing Director at Kurtz Ersa Automation
Kurtz Ersa Automation GmbH

Indium Corporation Announces SMTA China East Presentations
Indium Corporation

Webinar: Supply Chain Resilience with Digital Component Inspection
Cybord

Axel Wolff joins Eutect GmbH as sales manager
Eutect GmbH

1 Click SMT to Show Inline, Offline Selective Soldering at NEPCON China
1 Click SMT Technology Co., ltd.

MicroCare Builds its Team with Two New Hires
MicroCare LLC

CalcuQuote Presents Build: Digital Transformation Starts Here
CalcuQuote

Critical Manufacturing Named as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant
Critical Manufacturing

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What does "opposition of electrical current flow in a AC circuit" mean?
Answer: Inductance and elastance (weak capacitive coupling) cause opposition to electrical flow in an AC circuit, and this opposition is called reactance.