[tinwhiskers] Re: ACE Develops Lead Tinning System
- From: "John Lau Hon-Shing" <lauhs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tinwhiskers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 06:32:24 +0800
Dear Steve:
I don't disagree with you, but.........
I have been lecturing all over the world (>100 times) on EU and China
RoHS and bad mouthing the (Pb-ban) for no environmental or scientific
basis. I also wrote many Journal and Proceeding papers (>50) on
lead-free and most of the times, in the Introduction of the papers, I
pointed out that lead-free is not good for environments and increases
the costs of products.
Since July 1, 2006 I have been changing my mind. Why? Because it is
"COOKED"! If you want to put your electronics products in the markets of
EU, China, Japan, Korea, etc. you have to do Pb-free, period! Thus,
rather than pointing the finger (may be the 3rd one - sorry for my
language), let's try our best (to do some great/useful scientific &
engineering works) to build a sounded infrastructure for leadfree (you
may call it damage controls).
I recommend you to talk to HP, Intel, Nokia, SONY, etc. who have to ship
their products to make a living. You may hear something different and
change your mind too!
I'd never written anything in this kind of forum in my professional
life. (I saw Werner's name and just trying to say "Hi" to him. That's
all.) If I said something wrong, please forget me!
Thanks & Best Wishes!
John H. Lau
Microsystems, Modules & Components Laboratory
Institute of Microelectronics (IME)
11 Science Park Road
Singapore Science Park II
Singapore 117685
TEL:(65)6770-5424; lauhs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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[mailto:tinwhiskers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Smith
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 07:27 AM
To: tinwhiskers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tinwhiskers] Re: ACE Develops Lead Tinning System
Hello John,
I have to take issue with one thing you say, below, and so I will trim
away the rest and interleave some comments:
<snip>
> Because if you want to put your
> electronics products in the markets of EU, China, Japan, Korea, etc.
> you have to do Pb-free. Thus, most of the electronics companies (for
> good or for bad - thus it is not a problem anymore) are doing
Pb-free...
This is placing human greed above sound engineering and manufacturing
principles.
JUST BECAUSE FIVE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE DO A FOOLISH THING, DOES NOT
MEAN THAT IT IS NOT A FOOLISH THING.
<snip>
> The way I see it,
> 10-20 years from now, more than 95% of electronics products would be
> built by Pb-free. At that time, all those politicians will be laughing
> at us and saying how right they have been and how wrong we were.
> Because at that time, the lead-free infrastructure could be
> solidly/completely built, the reliability problems reduce
<snip>
There is no evidence whatsoever that lead-free and particularly
pure-tin finishes will not have reliability problems.
There IS evidence that they WILL.
This entire lead-free movement was started with no sound scientific
basis for it, and a verified history of pure-tin-finishes growing
whiskers. I see this as comparable to eating a fashionable new
plant-food that is known to occasionally kill people ["but all of those
reports were not verified to be directly caused by this stuff...it
could have been anything"], but is claimed to greatly prolong life
expectancy, and is promoted by fancy television advertising that
promotes it as the new, fashionable thing to do, and everyone is doing
it, and therefore so should you.
It will take twenty years for you, personally, eating that stuff, to
find out whether it degenerates your nerves and you end up a vegetable
in a wheelchair for the remaining hundred years of your life.
Everything has consequences. Lemmings don't care at all for
consequences; they all run in the same direction because they are
following the ones in front. When many people are given False Data and
told not to think for themselves, but to obey a self-proclaimed
"Authority", they often go into agreement with the "Authority". This is
not the first time that many people have agreed to do a foolish thing.
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