Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive a disadvantage because it can lead to lower quality electrical connections – can be used to place components more tightly than they used to be placed due to the properties of lead-containing solders. For example, Motorola reports that their new RoHS wireless device assembly techniques are "...enabling a smaller, thinner, lighter unit." Their Motorola Q phone would not have been possible without the new solder. The lead-free solder allows for tighter pad spacing. Research into new alloys and technologies is allowing companies to release RoHS products that are currently exempt from compliance, "e.g." computer servers. IBM has announced a RoHS
Private Parts & Pieces VII: Slow Waves, Soft Stars Private Parts & Pieces VII: Slow Waves, Soft Stars Private Parts & Pieces VII: Slow Waves, Soft Stars is the twelfth studio album by English multi-instrumentalist and composer Anthony Phillips. It was released in August 1987 in the United States by Audion Recording as the seventh instalment in his "Private Parts & Pieces" album series. The album sees Phillips explore ambient and new-age music with synthesisers and guitars. Following the release of his previous album, "", in 1986, Phillips found himself in a situation where he was "plodding along doing the same kind of things" until a lack of commissions