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This ended up having a lasting legacy as many motherboard manufactures switched to Japanese made and/or polymer capacitors. They would tout this fact in their m
by magila 9y ago
This ended up having a lasting legacy as many motherboard manufactures switched to Japanese made and/or polymer capacitors. They would tout this fact in their marketing material as a sign of quality. Tech sites started noting the source of a board's caps in their reviews. To this day you will sometimes see "all solid capacitors" in the marketing literature for a motherboard.
- dfox 9y agoIt is slightly questionable whether this episode is really the cause for the switch. Around the same time frame significantly faster switching transistors became available which allowed DC-DC converters to reach higher efficiency by increasing switching frequency, which has the nice side effect of requiring smaller filtering capacitors at the expense of requiring lower ESL/ESR. Also over past 5 years or so small chip low-voltage MLCCs became available in previously unheard of capacities that are perfectly usable for many bulk filtering applications with prices that are competitive with aluminium electrolytics.