I'm going to scratch my grey beard and say that 10 years from now, we'll still be talking about printed copper for PCBs being the next big thing.
There is so much inertia behind the existing technologies that I cannot see how the transition will happen. There would need to be either some significant breakthrough technology advantage for printed copper or strong (global) regulation.
But, I could see it growing over the next decade in some form of niche applications, like the flexible example given in the article.
Normally, I am even more down on these academic science fair projects. But this one claims to have some industry interest. But I wonder if that is more than ETS providing some funding.
All that said, I would prefer the electronics industry move towards a more environmentally friendly method for PCB production. But I don't see that happening without a catalyst.
I'm going to scratch my grey beard and say that 10 years from now, we'll still be talking about printed copper for PCBs being the next big thing.
There is so much inertia behind the existing technologies that I cannot see how the transition will happen. There would need to be either some significant breakthrough technology advantage for printed copper or strong (global) regulation.
But, I could see it growing over the next decade in some form of niche applications, like the flexible example given in the article.
Normally, I am even more down on these academic science fair projects. But this one claims to have some industry interest. But I wonder if that is more than ETS providing some funding.
All that said, I would prefer the electronics industry move towards a more environmentally friendly method for PCB production. But I don't see that happening without a catalyst.
