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VIA Announces Lead-Free Motherboard

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the earth-day-special dept.

linuxprox writes "VIA announced today that their AS-1210 motherboard will be the world's first lead-free motherboard. 'The transition to 'green' manufacturing for VIA has been very smooth and we have been able to ship lead-free processors and chipsets since the end of last year,' said Richard Brown, Vice President of Marketing, VIA Technologies, Inc. 'The AS-1210 clearly demonstrates the technology leadership of VIA and Yamashita in being the first to market with a lead-free motherboard that meets the requirements of the international market.'"

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  1. Re:Not because of our blue eyes by jet_silver · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The environmental "issue" is a smokescreen. The rule is a ploy by the EU to raise trade barriers against non-EU suppliers. The way the EU regs are written, if a non-EU company ships a lead-bearing PCBA to the EU and gets caught, that company can get -banned- from supplying to EU countries thenceforth; while if a EU company does the same thing its Minister of Trade has to stand up at the Hague and sing "I'm a Little Teapot".

    All the rule does for the rest of the world is eviscerate forty years' worth of reliability development in electronics assembly. I will wait five years before purchasing any electronics, in the hope that by then the processes will be fixed or assembly reverts to lead-based solder.