Let’s get small(er)
suppliers. In systems both complex and simple, the little things add up. In aircraſt, lighter electronics can allow for increased payload or more fuel for extended range. Keep in mind that those electronics must make every flight for the life of the plane, so while each individual flight might not amount to much over the life of the plane, the fuel expense could be significant. For soldiers who are
increasingly carrying
more electronic assets, the story is virtually the same, except that the lighter electronics will allow him to carry more of what military logistics experts call the critical “Tree Bs” required for combat: bullets, bandages and beans. Improved electrical performance is
another benefit of “getting small.” While many factors contribute to the overall performance of electronic products, one of easiest to identify and quantify is the proximity of components to one another. Tis is because the closer IC devices can be placed relative to one another, the faster they can communicate. In addition, they require less energy because of the shorter circuit paths. While the energy savings possible for one small product may not be much, when it is multiplied by millions or billions, the number quickly becomes appreciable. Another
benefit that stems from
product shrink is cost savings or value improvement. Te makers of ICs have been delivering higher performance at lower cost for more than four decades. Most of it comes from making transistors ever smaller with each new generation. IC package developers are more limited in terms of technical options to make things smaller and thus to get small, at least in terms of volume,
leading edge product
developers are increasingly looking for help in the 3rd dimension by stacking chips in packages and then stacking the packages themselves. Tere are other unseen, or at least not
too obvious, benefits of reducing size. A smaller electronic system can be packaged in a smaller box, which uses less material and thus reduces packaging cost. Tere are environmental benefits to shrinking products, too: smaller devices and systems use less resources and energy in their manufacture. To summarize, “getting small” relative
to electronics has a number of benefits, and it can provide many obvious and not so obvious benefits to the manufacture and the user while reducing the product’s impact on the environment both in terms of materials and energy—so following the
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advice of Steve Martin is not so “wild and crazy” aſter all.
Verdant Electronics founder and
president Joseph Fjelstad has more than 35 years of experience in electronic interconnection and packaging technology in a variety of capacities from chemist to process engineer and from international consultant to CEO. Mr. Fjelstad is also a well known author writing on the subject of electronic interconnection technologies. Prior to founding Verdant, Mr. Fjelstad
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