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NEWS

TTM Receives $30M from DoD to Fund Expansion

01 October 2024

SYRACUSE, NY – TTM Technologies has received a $30 million grant from the US Department of Defense to help fund an expansion of its PCB manufacturing capabiliti... Read More...

Electronics Industry Sentiment Drops Sharply in September

30 September 2024

BANNOCKBURN, IL – Industry sentiment in the electronics sector declined significantly in September due to rising cost concerns and weakening demand, according t... Read More...

Icape Group Announces 8% Decrease in H1 Revenue

26 September 2024

FONTENAY-AUX-ROSES, France – Icape Group announced €86.6 million ($97 million) in revenue for the first half of the year, down 8.4% compared with the first half... Read More...

Nano Dimension to Acquire Markforged for $115M

26 September 2024

WALTHAM, MA – Nano Dimension and Markforged have agreed to a definitive agreement in which Nano Dimension will acquire all outstanding shares of the 3-D printer... Read More...

AT&S Sells Korean Plant to Somacis

24 September 2024

LEOBEN, Austria – AT S has completed the sale of AT S Korea, including its PCB manufacturing plant in Ansan, South Korea, to Somacis for around €405 million ($4... Read More...

North American PCB Sales Climb 35% in August

24 September 2024

BANNOCKBURN, IL – North American PCB shipments in August rose 35% year-over-year, IPC reported in its monthly North American PCB Statistical Program. The book-t... Read More...

PCEA and JITX to Hold PCB Design Community Meetup at PCB West 2024

23 September 2024

PEACHTREE CITY, GA – The Printed Circuit Engineering Association and JITX today announced the printed circuit board design (http://www.PCBwest.com) industry’s f... Read More...

North American EMS Shipments Down 4% in August

23 September 2024

BANNOCKBURN, IL – North American EMS shipments in August declined 4.4% compared to the same month last year, according to IPC's North American EMS Statistical P... Read More...

US Commerce Department Offers Supply Chain Risk Assessment Tool

22 September 2024

WASHINGTON, DC -- The US Department of Commerce has unveiled an analytic risk assessment tool to inform the government’s efforts in mitigating supply chain risk... Read More...

EMA Webinar to Show Productivity Gains of Cadence ECAD

19 September 2024

ROCHESTER, NY -- EMA Design Automation on Oct. 1 will host a webinar titled Maximize Your Design Productivity in OrCAD X and Allegro X. Read More...

AI in Electronics Free Panel Discussion at PCB West

19 September 2024

PEACHTREE CITY, GA – The Printed Circuit Engineering Association (PCEA (https://pcea.net)) today announced a special free panel session on AI in Electronics wil... Read More...

Taiwan PCB Sales Rose 13% YoY in Q2

18 September 2024

TAIPEI -- Taiwan's printed circuit board sales rose 12.7% year-on-year in the second quarter on strong demand for AI servers, satellite communications, and auto... Read More...

Icape Acquires NTW, Major Japanese PCB Distributor

17 September 2024

HOVVAHGEN, SWEDEN -- Icape Group has signed a deal to acquire NTW, a Japanese distributor of PCBs in Asia. The deal is subject to customary suspensive condition... Read More...

Doosan Opens Copper Foil Plant in S. Korea

13 September 2024

GIMJE, KOREA – Doosan has opened a flexible copper-clad laminate (FCCL) plant here at the Horizon Industrial Complex. Read More...

Elna Opens Malaysian PCB Manufacturing Plant

10 September 2024

BUTTERWORTH, MALAYSIA – Taiwanese PCB manufacturer Elna PCB has opened a new 10,000 sq. m. manufacturing plant here in the Perai Industrial Zone. Read More...

FEATURES

Driving PCB Manufacturing Innovation and Efficiency

Can a production fabricator thrive in Middle America? Through its novel automation, Summit’s Chicago plant is proof-positive. In 1979, Eagle Electronics laid i... Read More...

Balancing Stackups and Circuitry

A symmetrical build is one of the keys to minimize board warpage. A stackup’s construction should be balanced to keep board warpage within IPC specifications. ... Read More...

Managing Signal Integrity in High-Speed PCBs

Nine considerations to prevent signal degradation due to crosstalk and EMI. With demand growing for AI chips the need for high-speed PCBs is on the rise. As op... Read More...

Can Thailand Pad its PCB Gains?

2023 saw only a handful of fabricators gain ground, but SE Asia is primed to boom. Small it was, but the Thailand Electronics Circuit Asia exhibition held in B... Read More...

Fundamentals of Signal Integrity at Various Frequencies

Tips and tricks for applications of all speeds, from 1MHz to gigabit level. How do you know a high-speed design application from an ordinary one? What qualifie... Read More...

Young Guns: The 2024 Designers Salary Survey

The annual snapshot of the industry finds the PCB design workforce is – at last – skewing younger. Is the PCB design workforce finally getting younger? After y... Read More...

PCB Design. No Humans Required.

An electronics startup is developing AI-driven design software that lessens manual intervention. The role of artificial intelligence in PCB design is a growing... Read More...

AI: The Shiny New Tool in the Engineer's Toolbox

Searching for components and automating schematic capture are just two of the ways AI will be implemented in PCB design. During the past 10 years, artificial i... Read More...

‘Everybody is Growing’

The East Coast trade show brings news of a steady industry, while puncturing myths about AI. Members of the electronics community gathered in the Boston suburb... Read More...

Measuring Quality Over Time

Using the Weibull distribution to model gold wire bonding on ENEPIG. The most used distribution in reliability analysis may be the Weibull distribution. Its ge... Read More...

How the PCB Stackup Helps Control EMI

Power and signal placed on outer layers minimize radiated emissions. The PCB stackup is like a building's foundation; a product not built on a strong base will... Read More...

Exploring the Impact of AI

A special panel discusses the growth of AI tools and its possible effects on the industry. “Will AI take my job?” That’s the question on the mind of many arou... Read More...

Connecting the Industry, from Boards to Assemblies

HDP is embarking on new rounds of evaluations of laminates and lead-free solders. The High-Density Packaging User Group, the nonprofit consortium of electronic... Read More...

Thermal Vias are Ineffective. Here’s Why.

Adding thermal vias can take up valuable board space with little benefit. We have developed several articles and publications in the past questioning the value... Read More...

Creating the Ultra Library

Building and maintaining what's said to be the world's largest CAD (http://www.pcdandf.com/pcdesign/menu-research/cad-cam-pcb-software) database requires strong... Read More...