AUSTIN, TX – National Instruments Corporation reported fourth quarter revenue of $448 million, up 7% year over year and an all-time quarterly record. Read More...
SAN JOSE, CA – Sanmina announced revenues of $2.36 billion for its first fiscal quarter. Read More...
WALTHAM, MA – Nano Dimension has announced preliminary revenues of $12.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2022, 61% higher than the fourth quarter of 2021 and ... Read More...
NEEDHAM, MA — Worldwide smartphone shipments declined 18.3% year over year to 300.3 million units in the fourth quarter of 2022, according to preliminary data f... Read More...
BANNOCKBURN, IL — December shipments by North American printed circuit board fabricators fell 1.7% from a year ago and 5.1% sequentially. Read More...
BANNOCKBURN, IL — North American electronics manufacturing services (EMS) bookings in December decreased 22.7% year-over-year and decreased 2.9 percent from the... Read More...
SAN JOSE, CA — Avishtech has announced the launch of two new low-cost toolsets, Gauss SI and SI PRO, that are designed to provide a clear and easy-to-use pathwa... Read More...
TROY, MI – Altair has signed a multiyear campuswide license agreement with TU Delft, the Netherlands’ oldest and largest public technical university which is ra... Read More...
TOKYO – Toppan has developed an eco-friendly near-field communication (NFC) tag label that uses paper material as the substrate for the antenna instead of conve... Read More...
MILPITAS, CA — Sales of design software for printed circuit boards and multichip modules increased 15.6% in the third quarter to $344.7 million, the ESD Allianc... Read More...
MILPITAS, CA — Electronic System Design (ESD) industry revenue increased 8.9% from $3.46 billion in Q3 2021 to $3.76 billion in Q3 2022, the ESD Alliance, a SEM... Read More...
PEACHTREE CITY, GA – The PCEA Conferences Task Group today announced the technical program for PCB East (https://www.pcbeast.com) 2023, featuring more than 60 h... Read More...
STAMFORD, CT — Worldwide semiconductor revenue increased 1.1% in 2022 to total $601.7 billion, up from $595 billion in 2021, according to preliminary results by... Read More...
FONTENAY-AUX-ROSES, FRANCE — PCB supplier ICAPE Group has announced that it is ending its operations in Russia. Read More...
ROCHESTER, NY — EMA Design Automation will be hosting a free webinar, “Designing with TI and the New Beaglebone AI 64,” on Thursday, Jan 26 from 11 a.m. to 12 p... Read More...
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A design can look good on paper, but has it been vetted for manufacturing? Printed circuit board assembly: What comes to mind when you hear, read, or think tha... Read More...
Thermal interface materials provide much-needed heat relief for electronic assemblies. Overheating is the number one cause of electronic component failure and ... Read More...
A basic process for revising a client-supplied CAD (http://www.pcdandf.com/pcdesign/menu-research/cad-cam-pcb-software) database. Not all designs start from sc... Read More...
A review of five useful tools and the basis for using each. What is the prominent skill process engineers are on the payroll for? It’s their problem-solving sk... Read More...
Will a “universal” footprint work for various-sized passives? This details the design of an LED constant-current driver PCB. I am trying to make this design as... Read More...
The path to digitize a factory is both closer and cheaper than most engineers realize. Reshoring has been a buzzword for a few years now. But when supply chain... Read More...
Political and supply-chain issues could not slow printed circuit growth in 2021. The author attended his first IPC meeting in 1966. At that time, the consen... Read More...
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...
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...
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...
Once energy leaves a controlled path, the chances are it will cause interference and radiate from board edges. Read More...
Amphenol Ardent Concepts' TR90 multicoax connector is designed to transfer high-speed signals up to 90 GHz and is designed for use in 112G/224G, 5G/6G, and auto... Read More...
Avishtech's Gauss SI and SI PRO are toolsets that provide a clear and easy-to-use pathway to rapidly construct PCB stackups and simulate for impedance and loss ... Read More...
Keysight Technologies' Electrical Performance Scan (EP-Scan) is a high-speed digital simulation tool that supports rapid signal integrity (SI) analysis for hard... Read More...
Passive Plus’s Traditional High-Q Low ESR 1111 (0.110” x 0.110”) multi-layer ceramic capacitors are meant for use in UHF/microwave RF power amplifiers, mixers, ... Read More...
Altium Designer 23.1 offers newly improved features spanning PCB design, product design and data management, enabling the creation of more detailed harness layo... Read More...
Ventec's VT-4BC is a metal base laminate designed for use in applications requiring excellent performance in thermal management, including super bright lighting... Read More...
Stackpole's CSRF2010 offers a 1W power rating and resistance values down to 2milliohm in 200ppm TCR or better. Read More...
Ventec's tec-speed 30.0 - VT-6735 features thermal conductivity of 1.15 W/mK, providing excellent thermal performance in applications operating at elevated temp... Read More...
Kyocera AVX's ASPGuard Series MLVs meet IEEE 100BASE-T1 and 1000BASE-T1 testing requirements, and have small, ultralow-profile, surface-mount packages optimized... Read More...
SMAC Moving Coil Actuators' LDR16-035 electric linear rotary actuator features 35mm stroke and HT12 motor for precision control needed for pick-and-place machin... Read More...
Altair's latest updates to its simulation portfolio, Simulation 2022.2, offer an enhanced Altair One experience by providing users with access to solutions, app... Read More...
Amphenol RF's multiport AUTOMATE Type A Mini-FAKRA series now includes single and dual-port right-angle connectors, along with straight and right-angle configur... Read More...
Peters' Elpemer solder resist SD 2463 FLEX-HF features state-of-the-art physical and mechanical properties, including ink that is flexible under bending stress ... Read More...
Stackpole Electronics' RNCF series of precision thin film resistors is designed for markets such as medical instrumentation and control, industrial and automoti... Read More...
Mechnano's Tough ESD is an additive manufacturing (AM) resin based on its Mech T technology that utilizes the power of discrete Carbon Nanotubes(dCNTs). Read More...