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NEWS

Electronic Components Sales Sentiment Sustains Momentum into January

07 February 2023

ATLANTA – The electronic components sales sentiment increased climbed to 82.2 points for the first month of the new year, according to the Electronic Components... Read More...

MKS Instruments Investigating Ransomware Attack

07 February 2023

ANDOVER, MA – Semiconductor equipment maker MKS Instruments Inc has announced that it is investigating a ransomware attack that occurred last week and affected ... Read More...

Global Semiconductor Sales Increase 3.2% in 2022 Despite Second-Half Slowdown

06 February 2023

WASHINGTON – Global semiconductor industry sales totaled $573.5 billion in 2022, the highest-ever annual total and an increase of 3.2% compared to the 2021 tota... Read More...

IDC: Worldwide Shipments of Tablets and Chromebooks Declined Sharply in 2022

03 February 2023

NEEDHAM, MA – Worldwide tablet shipments posted flat growth of 0.3% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2022, totaling 45.7 million units, according to prel... Read More...

Electronics Industry Continues to Show Resiliency Despite Rising Labor, Material Costs, IPC Says

02 February 2023

BANNOCKBURN, IL – Some 75% of electronics manufacturers are experiencing rising material costs, while 74% indicate that labor costs are on the rise, according t... Read More...

Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Device Shipments to Decline 4% in 2023

01 February 2023

STAMFORD, CT – Worldwide shipments of total devices (PCs, tablets and mobile phones) are projected to decline 4.4% in 2023, to total 1.7 billion units, accordin... Read More...

National Instruments Announces Record Revenue

31 January 2023

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...

Sanmina Reports $2.36B in Quarterly Revenue

30 January 2023

SAN JOSE, CA – Sanmina announced revenues of $2.36 billion for its first fiscal quarter. Read More...

Nano Dimension Reports $12.1 Million in Fourth Quarter Revenue

27 January 2023

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...

Smartphone Shipments Decrease 18.3% in Fourth Quarter

27 January 2023

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...

North American PCB Bookings Rose 8% in December

27 January 2023

BANNOCKBURN, IL — December shipments by North American printed circuit board fabricators fell 1.7% from a year ago and 5.1% sequentially. Read More...

EMS Bookings Fell in December, IPC Says

27 January 2023

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...

Avishtech Introduces Gauss SI and SI Pro for Stackup Design

25 January 2023

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...

Altair and TU Delft Sign Campuswide License Agreement

24 January 2023

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...

Toppan Launches Sales of Eco-friendly NFC Tag Label

23 January 2023

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...

FEATURES

Statistical Process Control Charts: Sampling Frequency, Subgroups and Plans

Taking the confusion out of determining appropriate data collection parameters. In 1924, Dr. Walter Shewhart was working at Bell Telephone Laboratories. On May... Read More...

Protecting Connectors on Zero Edge Clearance Boards

Not leaving enough clearance is a design oversight that can have costly consequences. As PCB designers, fabricators and assemblers, we wear a lot of hats at Ru... Read More...

Practices for Sustainability in PCB Metallization

A comparison of energy, water and chemical use for two common processes. “We will make decisions based on sustainability, Lenora.” I heard the words clearly. I... Read More...

DfM: The Devil is in the PCB Design Details

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...

Basics of Polymers for Thermal Management of Electronic Devices

Thermal interface materials provide much-needed heat relief for electronic assemblies. Overheating is the number one cause of electronic component failure and ... Read More...

Updating an Existing Printed Circuit Board Design

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...

Practical Statistical Tools for Process Engineers

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...

Designing an LVD/IR Printed Circuit Board

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...

Why I4.0 and Reshoring Go Hand in Hand

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...

NTI 100: The Unsinkable, Unstoppable PCB Market

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...

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...