The Start of the Story: Solder Paste Used in Thinky Products At the start of the 1990s, Thinky sold and manufactured measuring instruments as well as mixers for alginic acid. Solder paste (cream ...

There's good news for enthusiasts and fans of high-performance processors, at least in theory. After years of relying on thermal paste between its actual CPU die and the integrated heat spreader, or ...

Ever since Intel switched away from using solder to a thermal interface material on its desktop CPUs, enthusiasts have been asking the company to reverse that decision -- and occasionally cracking the ...

Flip chip microelectronic packaging has emerged as a cornerstone technology in modern semiconductor assembly, wherein the die is mounted upside down to the substrate to facilitate direct ...

When everything used wires, it was easy to splice them or replace them. Not so much with PC boards, but everyone has their favorite method for repairing a broken trace. [Mr. SolderFix] has his five ...