Over the past two years, supply chain challenges have significantly complicated high-volume availability of the industry-standard 3.2 x 1.5 mm and 2.0 x 1.2 mm tuning fork quartz crystals with lower plating loads. Abracon took this challenge into consideration and developed the 4.0pF plated version of its miniature ABS05 series. Abracon’s ABS07 family of 3.2 x 15 x 0.9 mm tuning fork quartz crystals have been the workhouse solution utilized in a broad breadth of applications from industrial and medical electronics to consumer IoT gadgets. As the utilization of next-generation MCUs has taken hold, the need for a lower plating load (down to 4.0pF) version of the ABS07 gained momentum. Simultaneously, the industry’s continuous trend to miniaturize end-product designs has given way to demand for 2.0 x 1.2 x 0.6 mm tuning fork quartz crystals, which is represented by Abracon’s ABS06 family products. In particular, Abracon’s ABS06-107 at 4.0pF plating load has drawn popular interest. It presents a unique combination of lower plating load coupled with optimized equivalent series resistance (ESR) performance, making it ideally suited for energy-saving gorilla chips. This device is qualified on ST Micro’s reference design for the STM32 family of MCUs, including the high-performance F2 and F4 series as well as the ultra-low-power L1 series.