From there, some general soldering tools like flux and solder wick, a stencil for your chip, BGA balls, and a $20 USB-C hotplate are instrumental for reballing chips – tools you ought to have.

[Colin] uses some spare boards to lock the target board down to his bench and then uses a custom stencil and solder paste ... although the BGA could have concealed faults that would be hard ...

Double-sided circuit boards might be able to pass through the process using a single stencil. This is known as an A/B flip ...

Typically, SMT stencils are made of metal or plastic. Specific types include laser-cut SMT solder paste stencils, BGA stencils, and SMT BGA rework stencils. An acronym for ball-grid array, BGA is a ...

The new M4-based Mac Mini starts at 256GB of storage. If all you want is more space, you can get a 512GB module for $200, a ...

AIM Solder, a leading global manufacturer of solder assembly materials for the electronics industry, is pleased to announce its participation in the upcoming SMTA Silicon Valley Expo & Tech Forum ...

Blower-mode noise is based on industry-standard measurements at 50 feet and our measurements at ear level. Models rated Very Good or Excellent at 50 feet should meet common municipal limits of 65 ...

In a report released today, Brad Lin from Bank of America Securities reiterated a Buy rating on ASE Technology Holding Co (ASX – Research ...