The general process of circuit board assembly goes like this: You order your PCBs. You also order your components. For surface mount components, you apply solder paste to the pads, put the components ...

Through-hole chips are slowly falling by the wayside, and if you want to build something with new parts you will be using surface mount components. This means spreading paste and throwing it in the ...

There's good news for enthusiasts and fans of high-performance processors, at least in theory. After years of relying on thermal paste between its actual CPU die and the integrated heat spreader, or ...

Soldering is the process of using a metal alloy with a low melting temperature (solder) to fuse the electrical contacts of a component to the pads of a circuit board. Proper soldering maximizes the ...

Makers, developers and electronics enthusiasts that build their own PCB boards might be interested in a new smart solder paste and fluid dispenser which has been specifically created to aid the ...

Intel has just revealed its upcoming 9th-gen Coffee Lake-R processors. The i9-9900K is the “best gaming CPU ever,” according to the company. It turbos up to 5GHz (on at least one core) with a total of ...