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NEWS

AGY Invests $12.1 Million to Expand US Glass Fiber Capacity

03 December 2025

AIKEN COUNTY, SC – AGY will invest $12.1 million to expand specialty glass fiber production at its Aiken County facility, adding 80 jobs and increasing US capac... Read More...

Wipro Electronics to Launch $60M PCB Plant in Bengaluru North Within Nine Months

03 December 2025

BENGALURU, INDIA – Wipro Electronics plans to begin operations at its new PCB facility in Doddaballapura, Bengaluru North within the next nine months. The inves... Read More...

Eltek Q3 Margins Drop to 12% as Currency Shift Impacts Results

03 December 2025

PETACH TIKVA, ISRAEL– Eltek reported third quarter revenue of $13.3 million, down 1% from the same quarter last year, while gross margin fell sharply to 12% fro... Read More...

PCEA Issues Call for Abstracts for PCB West 2026

03 December 2025

PEACHTREE CITY, GA – NOVEMBER 10, 2025 – The Printed Circuit Engineering Association (PCEA (https://pcea.net)) today issued a call for abstracts for the PCB Wes... Read More...

Q4 Sanmina Revenue Up 7.4%

04 November 2025

SAN JOSE, CA – Sanmina reported yearly revenue of $8.1 billion, a 7.4% increase over the prior year. Cash flow from operations for the year totaled $621 million... Read More...

Q3 Global Silicon Wafer Shipments Up 3% YoY, SEMI Reports

04 November 2025

MILPITAS, CA – Worldwide silicon wafer shipments rose 3.1% year-on-year in the third quarter to 3,313 million square inches (MSI), according to the SEMI Silicon... Read More...

EIPC Issues Call for Abstracts for Winter Conference in France

04 November 2025

FRANCE – The EIPC (European Institute for the PCB Community) is seeking abstracts for technical presentations at its Winter Conference, taking place February 3–... Read More...

Global Semiconductor Sales Climb 15.8% in Q3

03 November 2025

WASHINGTON, DC – Worldwide semiconductor sales reached $208.4 billion in the third quarter, rising 15.8% from the previous quarter, according to the Semiconduc... Read More...

North American EMS Market Stabilizes as September Book-to-Bill Reaches 1.31

31 October 2025

BANNOCKBURN, IL – The Global Electronics Association reported that North America’s EMS industry continued to stabilize in September 2025, setting the stage for ... Read More...

North American PCB Shipments Surge 32% in September as Year-to-Date Growth Tops 10%

31 October 2025

BANNOCKBURN, IL – The Global Electronics Association reported strong September results for the North American PCB industry, highlighting double-digit year-to-da... Read More...

TTM Technologies Reports 22% Revenue Growth in Q3, Raises Q4 Outlook

31 October 2025

SANTA ANA, CA – TTM Technologies posted strong third-quarter results, beating analyst expectations on both revenue and earnings. The company reported revenue r... Read More...

Zhen Ding Subsidiary Avary Acquires Majority Stake in Wuxi Huayang

31 October 2025

TAIPEI – Taiwan-based Zhen Ding Tech Group announced that its subsidiary, Avary Holding, will acquire a 53.68% stake in China’s Wuxi Huayang Technology for $50 ... Read More...

Thai Kun Circuit Expands PCB Manufacturing with New Factory

30 October 2025

PRACHINBURI, THAILAND – Thai Kun Circuit has broken ground on a new factory at 304 Industrial Park in Thailand as part of its plan to expand production capacity... Read More...

Concord Control Systems Acquires 50% Stake in Fusion Electronics

29 October 2025

LUCKNOW, INDIA – Concord Control Systems Limited has taken a step into advanced electronics manufacturing with the acquisition of a 50% equity stake in Fusion E... Read More...

Ichia Technologies Opens RM490 Million PCB and Assembly Facility at Kulim Hi-Tech Park

29 October 2025

KEDAH, MALAYSIA – Ichia Technologies has inaugurated its second state-of-the-art facility at Kulim Hi-Tech Park (KHTP). The $102 million investment establishes ... Read More...

FEATURES

Nexperia Crisis Exposes Hidden Fragility in the PCB Supply Chain

Just when the industry thought the shortage saga was over, the parts giant hit refresh on the chaos. The global electronics industry faces another shortage sit... Read More...

Beyond the Gerbers: How Unstructured Data Drives PCB Cost and Lead Time

The real bottleneck isn’t the layout; it’s decoding those half-hidden specs stuffed into a PDF. Every electronics engineer and PCB designer knows the feeling: ... Read More...

From Boards to Assemblies: Precision PCB’s Journey to In-House Manufacturing

How a longtime PCB supplier became a contract manufacturer. More than a handful of US-based printed circuit board fabricators offer some degree of assembly in ... Read More...

5 Things That Will Haunt Your Plating Tanks

And practical steps to exorcise the chemistry demons. Each fall brings ghosts, goblins and, if you’re not careful, a few monsters lurking right inside your pla... Read More...

Hybrid vs. Single Material Stackup in PCB Design

Good engineering isn’t just about power; it’s about knowing where not to over-engineer. As modern electronic devices combine RF, high-speed digital and power c... Read More...

A Novel Synthesis Approach for Simplifying PCB Design

Optimizing interconnects, fanouts and signal structures before schematic capture. As printed circuit boards (PCBs) grow denser, faster and more power-constrain... Read More...

The Analysis of Variance: Drawing Conclusions from Data that are Correct, Unambiguous and Defensible

How ANOVA helps ensure process data lead to accurate, defensible decisions. The two-sample t-test determines if two population means are equal. Typical applica... Read More...

On Flying, Finding and the Trade Show Floor

Somewhere between the badge scanner beep and missing business cards, community happens. I’ve been reading to my son before bed lately. And now that we’ve (merc... Read More...

Tried-and-True Design Practices for High PCB Yield

Effective design means building with manufacturing limits in mind. Everyone makes mistakes. In PCB design, design for manufacturing (DfM) is all about correcti... Read More...

5 Things that Will Haunt Your Plating Tanks this October

And practical steps to exorcise the chemistry gremlins. October brings ghosts, goblins and, if you’re not careful, a few monsters lurking right inside your pla... Read More...

A Novel Wrap Plating Method for Multilayer PCB Fabrication

Avoiding via failures caused by barrel plating separation. PCB manufacturers face challenges in the precise registration of multiple layers, which is required ... Read More...

Among PCB Designers, Raises are Up, Benefits are Down and Deadlines Don’t Budge

Boards aren’t the only things getting more complex. Workloads are too. PCB designers are, by and large, a veteran crew. Many have been in the game for decades,... Read More...

Component Dynamics: Where Market Intelligence Meets Distribution

Component Dynamics is showing how independent distributors can guide their customers in tricky times. It’s well-established that the Covid component crisis for... Read More...

The Growing Importance of DfX in AI Hardware

SMTAI Women’s Leadership Program highlights how technology shifts lead to greater opportunities for those with specialized skills. The need to develop new tech... Read More...

Tracking Giants: Inside the World’s Top PCB Fabricators

From Shenzhen to Southeast Asia: The changing map of PCB production. Accurately investigating the revenues of the world’s largest PCB fabricators is confoundin... Read More...