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(December 12, 2007) LAS VEGAS — IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries released highlights for its IPC Printed Circuits Expo/APEX/Designers Summit, April 1–3, 2008, in Las Vegas. The show includes a conference, free forums, standards development meetings, professional development courses, and exhibit floor.
Patrice Rolett, GM, Avantec Europe, will co-host the opening session with Huang Jianzhong, director of the Bureau of Economy System Reform & Economy Operation, Ministry of Information Industry (MII), China. Huang and Rolett will speak about REACH regulations and the requirements of China RoHS, topics that resonate throughout the week's technical sessions. Environmental and regulatory impacts on business, manufacturing, and assembly will be central.
Lead-free is another major theme of the technical sessions, with lead-free repair the topic of Tuesday rework-and-repair sessions. Here, iNEMI will report its findings on repair equipment temperatures and tolerances. Lead-free also will feature in the "Interconnect Reliability" session on Thursday.
Other sessions will cover high-speed and embedded technology during the week. These will target board designers and manufacturers dealing with higher signal frequencies on modern, high-bandwidth assemblies. Materials, board fabrication, assembly, and software also will be featured. For the full roster, visit www.goipcshows.org/conferences.
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