Trending Toward Profitability

摘要

The first decade of the new millenni-um delivers no real surprises in PCB design trends: boards are more complex, speeds are sizzling, digital content is growing, differential signals are explod-ing and no one wants to pay more. Nor are there any real surprises among the business trends: market windows nar- row, products themselves are shorter-lived and everyone wants to pay less. The real changes will be in the ways that companies deal with the relentless progression of these trends - every incremental shortening of design cycle time or increase in data speed requirements reverberates right to the bottom line.