Mr. Nicolet, a Swiss-born professional in the PCB business, has been involved since 1982. He served as production manager for Seprolec and later as technical director for Cicorel. In 2000, he joined Multek as technical director, acting in Germany, USA, and China for six years. In 2006, he joined SCHMID as technical director for PCB machines and took responsibility for the PCB business. In 2009, he moved to Hong Kong and managed the production site and worldwide sales. Since 2020, he is located in Taiwan and serves as the V.P. of BU Electronics for the SCHMID Group
Substrates production to face some new challenges. Chaplet’s requirement increasing, new materials are needed, miniaturization, power consumption, thermal management, High Frequency requirements, Cost, Geo-political situation, and investments security for new fab.
Embedded Traces process is one of the answers of the challenges, ET opens new design opportunities for the next generation of substrates, secure CAPEX investments due to the extended capabilities including automation, a green production technology with reduced water and power consumption can open the possibility of near shoring.