Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

Ahmad Faridzul Hilmi Shamsuddin

Ning Ye

Warren Middlekauff

Bo Yang

Chun Sean Lau

Shankara Venkatraman Gopalan

A protective enclosure for a PCB assembly, e.g., a solid-state-drive assembly. In an example embodiment, the enclosure comprises a flexible, stamped-metal heat spreader connected, by way of cured-liquid TIM parts, to at least some of the packaged integrated circuits on one side of the PCB assembly. In some embodiments, additional cured-liquid TIM parts may be connected between the body of the protective enclosure and packaged integrated circuits on the other side of the PCB assembly and/or the assembly's PCB. The PCB assembly, heat spreader, and various TIM parts are arranged in a manner that helps to significantly lower the risk of solder-joint failure under thermal cycling.

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Penang, Malaysia

Ahmad Faridzul Hilmi Shamsuddin