3 ms·

I'm curious, what run size are you looking at?

• akiselev 7y ago
  From ten to about one million. There are major caveats though: The middle volume boards (4-5 figures) were far more complex mixed signal boards with 10-20 layers and clock speeds ranging from several hundred Mhz for RAM busses to 1 ghz for MIPI to 2-50ghz for radios. Those projects had special needs and required quite a bit more manpower during the fabrication stage for layer alignment and in the assembly stage for tuning, since they exploited some nonlinearities in different components for high precision synchronization. The large volume boards (6-7 figures) where consumer electronics focused and extremely price sensitive so the combined savings from colocation of fab and assembly were often significantly more than any savings automation or logistics in the United States, especially accounting for risk.