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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Trends & Observations
Trend: Embedded components center stage at printed circuits show
Japan: Recession shrinks largest printed circuits show 30%
Featured items this year included 3D packages, embedded components, fine pattern generation, printable electronics, LDI, high speed assembling and …
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Manufacturing activity: Light at the end of the tunnel?
Meanwhile, material and component shortages are a bit more serious for manufacturers in Southern China. A news article from an industrial media publication reported that …
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Japan’s printed circuit board market struggles
Going forward, Japanese printed circuit manufacturers are not sure where business will come from to keep the momentum going. Japanese management teams are …
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Russian EMS to reach nearly $5 billion in 2015
Russia has been looked upon as an unfavorable market for electronics manufacturing by foreign electronics manufacturers in the past. This negative perception has been …
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Taiwan electronics end-market demand trends
According to industry researchers, after just two months of relatively strong, above seasonal performance, Taiwan monthly sales were just slightly ahead of seasonal. The report breaks down trends for each of the following end-markets …
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Reader courtesy appreciated
One of our European readers recently brought to our attention a Swedish Website publisher had scraped some of our content and placed it on their domain …
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IT survey results: Tech rebounding?
Survey questions focusing on indicators of respondent satisfaction or emphasis were posed with a scoring basis of 1 to 10 (1 = very negative experience or expectations and 10 = very positive experience or expectations). Electronics OEM companies responded with …
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28.3% drop in printed circuit board shipments
Sales and orders improved in March over the first two months of the year due to seasonal effects, but year-on-year growth in rigid PCBs is still down significantly due …
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REPORT: EMS March struggle
The focus of EMS provider Jabil Electronics' earnings call last month was more about whether the market has seen, or will see, the bottom in demand, versus …
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