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Review: IPC's Roadmap for Electronic Interconnection
April 23, 2013 | Dan Beaulieu, D.B. Management GroupEstimated reading time: 2 minutes
A review from Dan Beaulieu.IPC International Technology Roadmap for Electronic InterconnectionAvailability: CD version only Price: $125 for members, $250 for non-members (quantity rates available)To purchase, click here.
Wouldn’t you love to know what the future holds for your industry or business? Wouldn’t you love to know what kind of equipment you should buy right now to prepare yourself to better serve your markets next year, in three years, or even 10 years from now?
If you’re running a PCB company, in what direction should you take that company? In what technologies should you invest? What will customers need from you in the future? Do you know the answers to these questions?
If you own a contract manufacturing business and you want to attract investors, what can you tell them about the future of your industry? Where can you get the data to convince these investors there is a grand future in contract manufacturing?
If you’re a large OEM building products to serve a consumer market, what will that consumer market want five years from now? What will it take to provide that "hot" product to a market waiting with bated breath? Do you know?
How are you currently getting such information? Are you using the age-old method of simply following your gut? Are you wetting your finger and holding it up in the air to see which way the wind is blowing? Are you looking back at what was successful when you had that good year in 1996 and looking for ways to repeat that? Are you just plain guessing?
An extensive, comprehensive, and easy-to-obtain document has been prepared especially for you and it's designed to provide insight into not only what will happen next year, but as far out as 10 years from now. IPC has introduced its all new IPC International Technology Roadmap for Electronic Interconnections and it is filled with all the data you will need to run your business today and in the future.
For those who think the a roadmap is just that, a chart talking about line widths and spacing three years out, think again. This document is much more than that. It addresses market trends--what's going to be hot, from everything smart to everything virtual to everything interconnect; miniaturization, packing the most in the smallest amount of space; and something called “portable PCBs,” which are complicated little board assemblies that use a tiny amount of power, but are powerful as hell (if you don’t know what they are yet, you will soon).
The roadmap covers technology trends in all interconnect devices and markets, from PCBs to assembly to design to chips. Every single aspect of electronic interconnections is addressed--right down to sockets and connectors.
I personally like the fact that this document delves into business and market trends, including an explanation of new business models which introduces the expectations of OEMs, ODMs, EMS providers, and fabricators, as well as the rise of contract specialists. It also includes a section concerning printed electronics, a market maturing into a truly viable option.
This document was developed with the help of hundreds of industry experts contributing research, insight, and knowledge of their particular area of expertise making this the most important document for the interconnect industry in years.
If you're serious about your business, if you want to make your decisions based on well-researched and documented facts, make sure you have your own copy of IPC International Technology Roadmap for Electronic Interconnection at your fingertips.