Craig,
I'm watching an electronics manufacturer prepare for RoHS, have seen some
presentations and such, and they will be ready. Any electronics manufacturer
in north america not ready for RoHS won't be around very long. In fact, soon
it will cost more not to be RoHS compliant. Volume of leaded components will
be very small compared to now. Intel may be scrambling but the entire world
will be demanding compliant parts. China is implementing a similar standard
but even more strict, Japan is going RoHS, my bet is that Canada and USA
will be RoHS (or similar) soon. And the industry will be compliant sooner,
to keep their market wide.
-- Doug
Craig Hughes wrote:
> On Sep 29, 2005, at 3:33 PM, Doug Sutherland wrote:
>
>> Hi Andrew, this RoHS issue is interesting. Some pilot tests on this end
>> have shown relative ease of transition to RoHS compliance. Most SMT can
>> be done with the same equipment, just different solder and higher temp.
>> Assuming you can find RoHS compliant parts hehe. The PXA270 at digikey
>> right now contains lead and is not RoHS compliant. But from what I see
>> going on, everyone is going down this road, not just europe. So Intel
>> has no choice but provide compliant parts. Some trickier things may not
>> be the electrical components, because those will be well documented for
>> RoHS compliance, but rather mechanical and other components, example
>> does your plastic enclosure use fire retardant that contains chemicals
>> resitricted by RoHS ...
>
>
> Yeah, my basic working theory here is that if Europe is serious about
> this, then Intel (and everyone else) will certainly be making
> compliant parts available (though they might cost more), and every CM
> on the planet is going to be capable of making RoHS compliant stuff
> (ie their machines and solder supplies will be just fine). It's not
> gumstix demanding it that's going to make the difference -- we'll
> basically just get to be able to be compliant because it'll be a
> check-box to tick on the order forms from the parts suppliers and the
> CMs. It doesn't matter if nobody but Europe ever has a RoHS-like
> law; europe's plenty big enough of a market that it'll just happen.
>
> C
>
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