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New Quadra Pro Manual X-Ray System
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Explore Reliable Solutions for WLP & PLP
For wafer- and panel-level packaging, you can rely on Nordson Electronics Solutions: fluid dispensing, plasma cleaning & more. Discover your solutions.
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What Year Was It?
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Hostage Crisis in Moscow Theater
About 50 Chechen rebels storm a Moscow theater, taking up to 700 people hostage during a sold-out performance of a popular musical.
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Fusion and Hybrid Bonding Experts
EVG's industry-leading process solutions, expertise and HI Competence Center accelerate the development and implementation of heterogeneous integration technology.
EV Group
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High-Quality, High-Volume Glass Wafers
Many do one or the other we do both. Quality, cleanliness, parallelism, flatness, roughness, serialization, traceability, consistency. Every wafer in spec, every time.
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What Year Was It Answer
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Hostage Crisis in Moscow Theater Answer: October 23, 2002
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October 23, 2025
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Beijing Issues Questionnaires for U.S. Analog Chip Probe
Beijing has launched an intensified anti-dumping probe into U.S. analog chips, issuing detailed questionnaires to foreign exporters, domestic makers, and importers. The investigation targets major U.S. chipmakers, collecting sales, cost, and customer data, raising stakes ahead of Trump-Xi talks.
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The experts agree
Performance and reliability top the priority list for semiconductor experts. Get our latest Research Report to explore how they’re addressing AI demands, integration challenges, and next-gen materials.
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RAIG Minimizes Corrosion, Allows Higher Gold on ENEPIG
Paper describes a mixed reaction RAIG electrolyte that minimizes galvanic corrosion and allows higher ENEPIG gold thicknesses, enabling robust designs and world-class quality on target with minimal variation.
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Are Your BGA Rework Operators Competent?
Can every operator handle your BGA rework equally well? In real life, in all but just a few situations, the answer is no. Why is this so?
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Texas Instruments signals that chip recovery is slowing
Texas Instruments forecast slower growth as chip demand cools, projecting Q4 revenue of $4.22–$4.58 billion and $1.26 EPS. Trade frictions and weak industrial orders are damping its post-slump rebound, sending the Dallas-based chipmaker's stock lower.
The Dallas Morning News
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NextSilicon Details Runtime-Reconfigurable Architecture
NextSilicon unveiled a runtime-reconfigurable dataflow chip that outperforms CPUs and GPUs on HPC workloads. Its software continuously identifies hot code paths and reconfigures ALUs in real time, accelerating computation while reducing energy waste and eliminating code rewrites.
EE Times
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Proven SiPaste® for Ultrafine-Pitch Printing
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A "seating chart" for atoms helps locate their positions in materials
MIT researchers have developed DIGIT, a computational method that lets optical microscopes pinpoint individual atoms in crystals by combining atomic structure maps with statistical analysis. This could advance quantum device design and reveal atomic-scale material defects safely.
MIT News
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4 Weird Things You Can Turn into a Supercapacitor
Scientists at Michigan Technological University turned plastic bottles into supercapacitors by converting PET into electrodes and separators. The fast-charging devices outperform traditional models slightly, offering a sustainable path for circular energy storage.
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Reflow Solderable TIM1 Thermal Grease
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Multiple Challenges Emerge With Physical AI System Design
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Silver Filled, Heat Curing Epoxy
Master Bond EP4S-80 is a one part, electrically conductive, silver filled adhesive for bonding, sealing and coating with a low curing temperature of 80°C.
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UV DIE Bonding Special Technology
Liquid adhesive is cured using ultraviolet (UV) light. In contrast to epoxy, the UV adhesive remains in the liquid state until it is exposed to high-energy UV radiation with UV DIE Bonding technology.
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How to Tweezer Pull
Learn how to perform an optimal Pull/Peel test using Tweezers. This guide covers test method settings and failures modes for Tweezer Pull/Peel testing. Download it now.
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Test Your Knowledge
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What does a pluviometer measure?
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Quote of the Day
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"We aim above the mark to hit the mark." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Plasma Processing Wafers and Dies
The STW-10 automated plasma system optimizes front-end semiconductor processing, activating silicon surfaces for hybrid bonding. It handles 300 mm wafers or dies on tape frames.
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Cartoon of the Day
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"There is always room for improvement. It's a small room with no windows or distractions. We already moved your things."
Copyright © Randy Glasbergen
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Test Your Knowledge Answer
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What does a pluviometer measure? Answer: Rainfall.
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