E/CIT Update

摘要

I recently attended the kick-off meeting for the Emerging Critical Interconnect Technology (E/CIT) program. As you may recall, E/CIT was established in 2002 by IPC and NAVSEA Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, to support R&D for the military's PCB needs. It's no secret that North American PCB manufacturing R&D virtually disappeared in the last decade, due to the closure of the major OEM PCB facilities that were the drivers and leaders of PCB technology development.