For a lot of reasons, home etching of PCBs is somewhat of a dying art. The main reason is the rise of quick-turn PCB fabrication services, of course; when you can send your Gerbers off and receive ...

Although the typical cliché for a mad scientist usually involves Bunsen burners, beakers, and retorts, most of us (with some exceptions, of course) aren’t really chemists. However, there are some ...

Photochemical etching is a machining technique that leverages the principles behind photography to shape a piece of sheet metal and turn it into a finished product or component. The modern form of ...

Plasma etching is perhaps the most essential process in semiconductor manufacturing, and possibly the most complex of all fab operations next to photolithography. Nearly half of all fab steps rely on ...

The evolution of PCBs from large and antiquated “printed wiring boards” to today’s fine-line designs on high-density interconnect (HDI) PCBs, IC substrates (ICS) and more, has been matched by ...

Lam Research (LRCX) reported Q1 FY26 revenue of $5.84B with 50% gross margins and 35% operating margins, with next quarter guidance of $6.6B or 13% QoQ growth, driven by critical etching equipment for ...

The medical industry has an obvious need for the absolute highest standard in precision metal parts to ensure that surgical instruments, for instance, function smoothly without fault. The metal parts ...