PCB KNOWLEDGE
How to buy a printed circuit board
Every lesson answers one question with numbers from our researched catalogue of 253 materials and 39 Thai factories, in English and Thai, with the sources kept. No lesson tries to sell you a quote.
8 MIN · WITH PRICES
Which surface finish should you ask for?
Eight finishes with what each costs per square inch, how long it keeps, how many reflow passes it takes and the failure each is known for.
INTERACTIVEWhat a laminate does to your signal
The whole material catalogue, with the eye diagram at the far end of a trace computed from each laminate's own published numbers.
THE COUNTRYThailand rebuilt its board industry in three years
Every plant, when it was registered, who owns it and which can quote a board today.
BEING WRITTEN
Layer stack-ups, and why six is not just four plus two
What a fabricator quotes against, and how thickness, impedance and cost move together.
BEING WRITTEN
Buying a board made in Thailand: promotion, duty and paperwork
Sourced from the Board of Investment, Customs and the company register. Not written from memory.