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…
IATF16949 PCB Manufacturing — What It Means for Automotive Suppliers If you are sourcing PCBs for automotive electronics — 77GHz radar, ADAS, EV power modules, body control systems or any other automotive application — your supply chain will eventually require…
MRI RF Coil PCB Material Selection — RO4350B vs RO3003 by Field Strength The substrate material of an MRI RF coil PCB directly affects coil Q-factor, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and ultimately image quality. The wrong material choice at the design…
