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I don't know the specific designs in questions, so I can only make a
"semi-educated" guess.
One reason is that boards in cellular phones are usually pure SMT,
with no through hole, and are also thin. Running a thin board through
an HASL machine tends to potatoe chip it. A gold finish requires no
heat excursion to fab the finished bare board. At component assembly
you don't have to run a pure SMT board over a wave so there is no
worry about gold in the wave machine.
Gold is also a great way to get a co-planar surface.
Component types such as COB or connectors requiring mechanical (not
soldered) connections can also drive this, but again I don't know your
designs.
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Subject: Why Gold finish on Cell phone Boards
Author: [log in to unmask] at Dell_UNIX
Date: 7/27/95 10:07 AM
I was hoping someone out there could help me out and shed
some light on a question that I've been trying to get an
answer to for a couple of months now (with limited success).
Why do the major cell phone manufacturers use gold
as their preferred finish?
I would appreciate any information.
Regards,
Steve Sabourin
Hadco Corporation
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