One of the joys of writing up the entries for the 2025 Component Abuse Challenge has come in finding all the different alternative uses for the humble transistor. This building block of all modern ...

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In a recent open letter, Bill Gates, no climate denier, remarked that: “Although climate change will have serious ...

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In any multi-die assembly, stacking two or more active dies results in thermal stress. Heat dissipated from a lower die faces a higher resistance if it is routed through layers of silicon rather than ...

Scale and time are areas where this varies from PCB manufacturing. Where you might pay 40 dollars for five PCBs delivered in ...

Ken Fisher is retiring after 55 years as a broadcast technician, ending a career that spanned the evolution of radio from ...