You don’t need much – the most exotic tool is a BGA rework station ... From there, some general soldering tools like flux and solder wick, a stencil for your chip, BGA balls, and a $20 ...

The PIO is particularly special as it's a custom feature specific to the microcontroller chip. What it does is ... a local weather station, and even a Pi-hole (DNS ad blocker).

Manufacturers of passive components are improving their devices through material and design improvements for size and cost ...

Equipment suppliers are racing to integrate AI into their solutions. Equally, manufacturers are racing to integrate the technology into their processes. As surface-mount electronics assembly is ...

Our commenteers have all said good things about the open-source TS100 soldering iron pencil: things like “it solders well”. But we’ve all got soldering irons that solder well. What possible ...

SE: With all these thermal issues and growing complexity of these multi-die assemblies, are there new kinds of stress testing ...

All gates to NAS Pensacola's Corry Station are closed. Sheriff Chip Simmons said the active shooter response started after receiving a call that a person had heard three gunshots in a building at ...

Malaysia has become a hot spot for chip manufacturing due to increasing tensions between the U.S. and China, especially around the development of semiconductors used for AI applications.

Nvidia also disclosed the DGX Station will use its proprietary ConnectX ... an Nvidia-branded soldered chip (perhaps the SuperNic), and two large uncovered dies. One of which is the Grace GPU ...