The Incredible Shrinking Component: What Do Smaller Components Mean for the Electronics Manufacturing Industry?
In 2020, tech company Murata is planning to begin production on the GRM011R60J104M, a ceramic capacitor with approximately the same dimensions as a single grain of sand. Murata claims the part is 80 percent smaller than any other component solution on the market with the same capacitance — and has 10 times more capacitance than…