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> in a couple of months for a few hundred, less if they already have a wire bonding machine and microscope. How do I get my hands on a wirebond machine for a
by jjoonathan 9y ago
> in a couple of months for a few hundred, less if they already have a wire bonding machine and microscope.
How do I get my hands on a wirebond machine for a few hundred? The bottom end of "old and crusty but not actually broken" seems to start at a couple thousand on eBay. If my budget were a few hundred I'd probably spend a month just machining and grinding replacement microscope parts.
I suppose you could be referring to the marginal cost of an hour on a wirebond machine at the nearest NNIN facility, but last time I priced out training options the overhead to get started would have been $500-$1k.
- Hasz 9y agoYeah, it's kinda tricky -- costs could be much higher. Wire bonders aren't exactly hot ticket items; very few people are using manual machines. A cheap Chinese made one from Taobao/Alibaba costs around $250, but add in shipping, and you're close to $500 already. Something made in the USA from eBay will be of similar price, just two decades older. If you're lucky enough to already be in China, I can't imagine it would be to difficult to get a small run made for a much lower cost, although I've never done so. Lots of factories making high volume, low end products use wire bonders to attach bare die to a PCB -- think calculators, gift cards, etc. The simple fact is there's no comparable level of electronics manufacturing in the US, making it hard to get the parts and machinery necessary.