The following looks at semiconductor revenue forecasts for the Americas, Europe, Japan, and Asia Pacific and covers discrete semiconductor, optoelectronics, sensors, and integrated circuits; analog, micro, logic, and memory. Revenues are in US$M plus year-on-year growth percent from 2017 through …
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Benchmarks & Best Practices
Global semiconductor revenue forecast by region, components, market growth
Top 10 EMS providers customer concentrations ranked by revenue
Customer concentration for the top 10 EMS providers below, ranked from top to bottom in order of total revenues. Information for EMS providers is from CIMB and company reports for fiscal year end 12/17, except Flex (FYE 3/18). Foxconn info …
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Artificial intelligence provides transcendence for electronics manufacturing expansion
How OEMs and EMS providers wanting to grow remain competitive while building sustainable business models and keeping an eye on the future.
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Artificial intelligence exceeding EMS manufacturing industry expectations
Faster, more accurate RFQ quote turnaround with fewer EMS staff, while reducing OEM new program launch to just 4 days v. 14-21 days previously. Click to read more findings.
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Tariff impact across technology sector raises telecom, networking hardware pricing
Chart details percentage pricing increases for hardware, highlighting changes based on tariffs, per OEM company, and product.
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EMS manufacturing metric: Materials work-in-progress (WIP) percent raw materials
Inventory turns are easily, and often, manipulated. Metric focuses EMS provider material purchasing cost and helps manage direct labor, costly EMS indirect labor workflow.
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Hourly manufacturing labor wages across Asia compared to rates in developed economies
Some shifts are taking place in manufacturers relocating operations and supply chains to less expensive countries even thought its costly and risky when moving production. Electronics OEMs and contract EMS manufacturing PCB assembly providers are impacted by tariffs, the rising …
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Demand underpins electric vehicle battery capacity and EV passenger vehicle projections
Rising demand not expected to let up anytime soon. Projections broken down by vehicle type and global demand and geography.
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Future manufacturing-as-a-service PCB assembly driven by manufacturing IT and marketplace
Manufacturing technology stacks will evolve, driven by three main drivers and influenced by these five ways of the next generation of manufacturing.
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Reward (or risk) for OEMs seeking India EMS manufacturing partners
Indian EMS providers and Indian EMS industry both have their challenges. Partnering with the right Indian EMS providers can prove cost-effective for even the most demanding OEM executives. As China loses some of its competitiveness for electronics design, manufacturing and …
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