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Labor disputes and recessions: Who has your back?
Japanese politicians are publicly voicing their concerns, but solutions to address unemployment and the growing homeless problem have not surfaced. Meanwhile, China’s increase in …
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Value propositions and differentiation for contract electronics services
For EMS firms, this means a continuation on their march toward bankruptcy and eventual replacement by emerging service providers. For OEMs, their ability to fully outsource production and focus on their core competencies will remain limited. Collectively, stagnancy in the EMS-OEM relationship will …
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EMS tier winners and losers for Q209
Looking at the EMS stock index by tier, the large tier index has increased 49.2% from Q109, the mid tier index has increased 38.0%, the small tier index …
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Printed circuit board and related materials trends
Many mid-sized flexible circuits manufacturers displayed 20 microns pitch and finer circuits for single-sided and double-sided circuits. A few companies employed the semi-additive process for pitches finer than …
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Battling EMS growth stories
IDC says the recession will drive down industry revenues by $37 billion in 2009, a –12.9% contraction. The EMS sector generated $167.1 billion in revenues for 2008, representing 58.5% of the overall industry. Additionally, the diversified revenue sources for the EMS sector should…
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Former Sanmina-SCI CFO Randy Spurr joins Spansion
Furr spent 13 years at Sanmina-SCI, nine as president and COO and four as executive vice president and chief financial officer. At Sanmina-SCI, Furr implemented the necessary …
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Jabil Circuit touching bottom?
Jabil CEO Tim Main did mention that IT investment by enterprises and consumer electronics spending have both been hit by under investment over the past year (down 40% to 45%). Given this degree of decline, it could be …
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Trend: Embedded components center stage at printed circuits show
Manufacturing companies for rigid circuit boards, flex circuits and modules are the front runners to bring this technology to market. Support for the technology is also coming …
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EMS 5 year forecast: Plexus at $3 billion?
Plexus has won approximately $690 million worth of business in the last 12 months. Management has said its near-term view is to grow the company over …
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