Aavid Thermalloy LLC

80 Commercial St.

Concord, NH 03301

Aavid Thermalloy

PCN# 017358-041634

Product Change Notification

PCN Publish Date:

October 17, 2005

PCN #: 017358-041634

Change Title: Product Process Change

Products Affected:

Description of the Change: : In an effort to make our product line more compatible with

regulatory and environmental guidelines, we are changing the volume manufacturing process for

the above products to make them RoHS compliant with Aavid Thermalloy specification RoHS

9000. (Available at http://www.aavidthermalloy.com/RoHS.shtml ).

The current version of this product uses solderable pins that are plated with a tin-lead finish.

The RoHS compliant version will have a 100% matte tin finish per ASTM B545 wiith a nickel under-

plate barrier of 1.9 to 3.8 um. Product being built using this new plating process is identified with a

"G" suffix at the end of the part# as show above in Products Affected.

Scheduling of Change:

Sample Date: Samples are available now for customer testing.

Volume Production: Volume production will be available November 16, 2005.

New orders should be placed for the “G” suffix product. Please adjust your current orders

so that they can be filled accordingly depending upon stock and availability.

EOL of unchanged Product: Once the manufacturing process has been changed to the

RoHS compliant process, it may still be possible to manufacture products with Sn/Pb

process; however product manufactured with the Pb process require a pricing adjustment

due to cost increases associated with material and lower volume manufacture.

Customer Impact: Products with matte tin pins are backward compatible with SN/Pb solder

processes.

Qualification Results: For an Aavid Thermalloy solderability qualification report visit our RoHS

website. http://www.aavidthermalloy.com/RoHS.shtml

Current Aavid Part Number

531202B02500

New RoHS Compliant Part Number

531202B02500G