Company: TTMI
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-024839
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Company: TTM TECHNOLOGIES INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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 holes on a PCB. In production, we are able to provide aspect ratios of up to 30:1.

•Thin core processing.    A core is the basic inner-layer building block material from which PCBs are constructed. A core consists of a flat sheet of material comprised of glass-reinforced resin with copper foil laminated on either side. The thickness of inner-layer cores is typically determined by the overall thickness of the PCB and the number of layers required. The demand for thinner cores derives from the requirements for thinner PCBs, higher layer counts and various electrical parameters. Core thickness in our PCBs ranges from as little as 0.025 mm up to 1.57 mm.

•Advanced hole fill processes.    Our advanced hole fill processes provide designers the opportunity to increase the density of component placements by reducing the surface area required to place many types of components. In traditional design, components are routed from their surface interfaces through via connections in order to access power and ground connections and the internal circuitry used to connect to other discrete components. Our advanced hole fill processes provide methods to allow for vias to be placed inside their respective surface mount pads by filling the vias with a thermoset epoxy and plating flat copper surface mount pads directly over the filled hole.

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•Advanced materials.    We manufacture circuit boards using a wide variety of advanced dielectric materials. These high‑performance materials offer electrical, thermal, and long-term reliability advantages over conventional materials but are more difficult to manufacture. We are certified by Underwriters Laboratories to manufacture PCBs using many types and combinations of these specialty materials. This broad offering allows us to manufacture PCBs for a wide array of end‑use applications, including highly complex PCBs for niche and high-end commercial and aerospace and defense markets.

•Quick-turn manufacturing.    In addition, in circumstances where our customers require time critical engineering and manufacturing services, we are able to react to our customers’ needs with our quick-turn manufacturing capabilities.

Our Integrated Electronics manufacturing organization principally designs and manufactures state-of-the-art microwave-based hardware for use in advanced radar systems, advanced jamming systems, missiles, and decoys, electronic surveillance systems, and satellite and ground-based communication systems. Several core manufacturing technology areas include:

•Electronic Systems Integration.    Assembly and Testing of Radar, Surveillance and Communications Systems, which are composed of Low/High Power, High Reliability modules that interconnect via cables and harnesses, Circuit cards, Flexprint assemblies, backplanes, Illuminated Panels for the purpose of IFF, Inter