Surface-mount technology

So, Fuji is able to position it very nicely.

So, primarily we have now three models which are going to run all across the SMT world.

One definitely NXTR which is a flagship model for us and that always remain as a flagship, NXTR as a platform.

Then we have AMXR that was introduced last year and now we started doing the sales promotion of this machine.

Give us an update on where you're at because you've been opening other offices I hear.

Yes, our company is expanding a lot.

I would say now we are into business of SMT, which you already know that.

In SMT, whatever new thing I've done, I'll explain that as well.

Makes sense.

But to save precious millimeter real estate on the board for more compute, the industry is moving aggressively toward surface mount technology or SMT housings.

And SMT changes the game entirely because of the violent reality of a reflow oven.

It does.

In an SMT process, you don't just solder the bottom of the board.

The entire board, with the connector sitting on top of it, goes through a reflow soldering oven.

Oh, wow.

It would literally melt into a useless plastic puddle on the board.

So we're kind of having fun.

We're embracing the capabilities we have, which is now quite a bit more since we have our own SMD line.

The SMD line was a very, very particular decision we made because late last year, Yeah, lighting up late the year before last.

We kind of found ourselves in this place where we're paying insane assembly costs for PC boards, you know, putting things on the board.

We worked with a number of suppliers, you know, around the US for quite a while.

The reality is that things are becoming so complicated, it is a lot more difficult to start as a DIYer and then bootstrap our company.

A great example is we are starting to produce many prototypes that you really can't make by hand.

They have to be done on our line with an SMD robot.

And then solder, you just be, I don't know what you guys use, a 6337, tin to lead, glow core, flux core.

Thickness doesn't matter all that much unless you get SMT, super, super thin stuff.

You'll be very frustrated.

But just get a tin to lead solder and just wash your hands when you're done.