PCB Lead Time in 2026: What’s Actually Taking So Long and How to Plan Around It If your PCB lead time quote in 2026 is longer than expected — or if a board that used to take 2 weeks now…
Last updated: October 2026. We re-verify this article every quarter against our own purchasing data. Q4 2026 status: high-frequency laminate supply remains tight, and the August 2026 Rogers price surcharge (see the surcharge notice) has raised procurement costs across the…
PCB Material Price Increase 2026: 6 Rounds of Hikes, Root Causes and What to Do Now PCB material prices rose through six consecutive rounds of hikes between December 2025 and April 2026 — the most sustained price escalation the industry…
Aluminum PCB Thermal Design Guide — Selecting the Right Conductivity Grade The most common aluminum PCB design error is specifying the wrong thermal conductivity grade — either choosing a standard 1.0 W/m·K board for a high-power application that needs 2.0–3.0…
Rigid Flex PCB Design Guide — Bend Radius, Stackup and DFM Rules Rigid-flex PCB failures almost always trace back to one of three design errors: insufficient bend radius, incorrect trace routing in the flex zone, or a stackup that the…
RT5880 vs RT5870 vs RO3003 — Rogers PTFE PCB Material Comparison Three Rogers PTFE materials cover the majority of RF and microwave PCB designs above 5GHz: RT5880 (Dk 2.20), RT5870 (Dk 2.33) and RO3003 (Dk 3.0). All three are PTFE…
