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Virtual Reality Shipments Show Real Promise in Q1

01 July 2022

NEEDHAM, MA – Global shipments for virtual reality (VR) headsets jumped 242% during the first quarter compared to the same period last year, according to new da... Read More...

Unimicron to Invest $20M in China

30 June 2022

KUNSHAN, CHINA – Unimicron is planning a capital investment of $20 million in Mainland China for printed circuit board production. Read More...

Eltek Resumes Deliveries to Customers After Fire

30 June 2022

PETACH-TIKVA, ISRAEL – Eltek has resumed making deliveries to its customers after a fire in one of the production rooms at its plant here. Read More...

ECIA: Negative Growth Suggested by June N. America Electronic Component Sales Sentiment

29 June 2022

ATLANTA – After a run of two years of overall positive sales sentiment and expectation for electronic components, the June 2022 Electronic Component Sales Trend... Read More...

UIUC Researchers Create High-Yield Plastic Microprocessors that Cost Under a Penny Each

28 June 2022

CHAMPAIGN, IL – A team of researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working with PragmatIC Semiconductor, developed the first commercially v... Read More...

Trackwise Lowers 2022 Forecast Based on EV Demand

24 June 2022

TEWKESBURY, UK – Trackwise Designs reported revenue of £3.3 million (US$4 million) in the first five months of 2022. Revenue for full-year 2022 is expected to b... Read More...

Calumet to Invest $6.5M in MI Plant

24 June 2022

KEWEENAW, MI – Calumet Electronics is investing $6.5 million at a newly built 35,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility in Northern Michigan, according to reports. ... Read More...

May N. American PCB Orders Down 9%

23 June 2022

BANNOCKBURN, IL – Total North American PCB year-to-date orders in May were down 9.2% year-over-year and 10.3% sequentially, according to IPC. Read More...

NCAB Group acquires Kestrel in the UK

23 June 2022

SUNDBYBERG, SWEDEN -- NCAB today acquired 100% of the shares in Kestrel International Circuits from the Merlin PCB Group for SEK 103 million ($10.1 million). Read More...

Vector Fabrication to Invest $60M in Vietnam PCB Plant

21 June 2022

DA NANG, VIETNAM – Vector Fabrication has received an investment license for a PCB and MEMS factory, with plans to invest $60 million, according to reports. Read More...

AT&S Austria Increases Fiscal 2023 Guidance to €2.2B

20 June 2022

LEOBEN, AUSTRIA – AT S Austria Technologie Systemtechnik now anticipates revenue of roughly €2.2 billion in the fiscal year 2022/23, up from previous guidance... Read More...

Nexar Launches Octopart CAD Model Marketplace

17 June 2022

SAN DIEGO – Nexar, a business unit of Altium, launched Octopart CAD (http://www.pcdandf.com/pcdesign/menu-research/cad-cam-pcb-software) Model Marketplace, a fr... Read More...

PCD&F's Annual Designers' Salary Survey Open

17 June 2022

PEACHTREE CITY, GA – PRINTED CIRCUIT DESIGN FAB is undertaking its annual salary survey of printed circuit board designers, design engineers and other layout ... Read More...

Q1 Cross-Strait Taiwanese PCB Output Up 21%

15 June 2022

TAOYUAN CITY, TAIWAN – First quarter cross-strait Taiwanese PCB output totaled NT$209 billion (US$7.02 billion), up 20.6% year-over-year and a new quarterly hig... Read More...

Eltek Reports Plant Fire in Israel

15 June 2022

PETACH-TIKVA, ISRAEL – Yesterday, a fire broke out in one of the production rooms in Eltek’s plant here. The fire damaged part of the production line in that ro... Read More...

FEATURES

A Royal Summit

Summit Interconnect’s chief executive explains the PCB fabricator’s latest buy. Summit Interconnect in May announced the acquisition of fellow printed circuit ... Read More...

OSP Myths Dispelled

A new specification tackles the application and performance of organic solderability preservatives. After many years of starts, stops and debate, an industry c... Read More...

Making Technology-Specific Design Charts

IPC-2152 is an important baseline for determining current carrying capacity, but further work must be done for individual applications. In response to recent c... Read More...

Minimizing the Effects of Vias on Very High-Speed Digital Signals

Unwanted capacitance hanging off signal traces can cause unwanted resonances and excessive attenuation. Data rates for very high-speed data links keep climbing... Read More...

Can PCB Fabrication Processes Keep Up with Design Demands?

New hole formation technologies and low-cost low-loss materials are needed. Ed.: This is the fourth of an occasional series by the authors of the 2019 iNEMI Ro... Read More...