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NEWS

UP Media Group Announces New Dates for PCB East 2021

21 January 2021

ATLANTA, GA – UP Media Group Inc. today announced new dates for PCB East 2021 when it returns to the Boston area this year. Read More...

IndustryWeek EIC Hessman to Keynote IPC Apex Expo

19 January 2021

BANNOCKBURN, IL — IndustryWeek’s editor in chief Travis Hessman will keynote IPC Apex Expo 2021. Read More...

Ticer Acquires Deposition Manufacturing Assets of Global Firm

18 January 2021

CHANDLER, AZ – Ticer Technologies has completed the acquisition of manufacturing assets from another global manufacturing corporation for an undisclosed sum. ... Read More...

Ucamco to Include IPC-DPMX Import in Upcoming CAM Releases

15 January 2021

GHENT, BELGIUM – Ucamco will include an industrialized IPC-DPMX import in its upcoming Integr8tor and UcamX releases. Read More...

US Energy Dept. Allots $124M in Funding for Tech Innovation, Connected Factories

13 January 2021

WASHINGTON – The US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy announced approximately $123.6 million in new funding, as well as $4... Read More...

Plasmatreat Opens Subsidiary in Switzerland

13 January 2021

DIEPOLDSAU, SWITZERLAND – Plasmatreat founded the subsidiary Plasmatreat Schweiz to better serve the Swiss market. The company has been managed by Klaus Kresser... Read More...

PC Shipments Up 26% in Q4, 13% for Year

11 January 2021

FRAMINGHAM, MA – The fourth quarter saw global shipments of PCs grow 26.1% year-over-year to 91.6 million units, according to International Data Corp. With the ... Read More...

PCB Design Tool Revenue Grew 15% in Q3

11 January 2021

MILPITAS, CA – Sales of design software for printed circuit boards and multichip modules increased 8.3% from a year ago to $260.4 million in the third quarter, ... Read More...

Private Equity Firm Acquires Ohmega Technologies

07 January 2021

CULVER CITY, CA – A private equity firm with $1.5 billion of committed capital acquired Ohmega Technologies, manufacturer of embedded thin-film resistive materi... Read More...

NI Expects Flat Q4 Revenue of $367M

07 January 2021

AUSTIN, TX – National Instruments reported preliminary GAAP fourth quarter revenue of $367 million, flat year-over-year, above the high end of guidance shared o... Read More...

Aspocomp Appoints Antti Ojala COO

07 January 2021

ESPOO, FINLAND – Aspocomp has appointed Antti Ojala chief operating officer as of Jan. 7. Ojala was previously vice president, business development and deputy C... Read More...

CCI Eurolam to Acquire Adeon Technologies

07 January 2021

PARIS -- CCI Eurolam Group, a leading distributor and industrial service provider to the EMEA electronics manufacturing industry, has signed an agreement to acq... Read More...

ATS to Host Electronics Thermal Management Webinar Jan. 21

06 January 2021

NORWOOD, MA – Advanced Thermal Solutions is hosting a free webinar Jan. 21 on electronics thermal management. Read More...

Global Smartphone Production to Increase 9% in 2021

06 January 2021

TAIPEI – Global smartphone sales will gradually recover in 2021 and will likely see a relatively strong wave of device replacement demand, as well as demand gro... Read More...

Pillai Returns to Sanmina to Run PCB Unit

06 January 2021

SAN JOSE, CA -- Sanmina announced that Hari Pillai has rejoined the company as president of Components Technology, the company's printed circuit board and mecha... Read More...

FEATURES

Eliminating Latency in Next-Gen WiFi 6E Devices

Advanced high-Q RF components will play a critical role in larger goal of eliminating many of the latency issues of the past. When WiFi 6 (IEEE 802.11ax) was i... Read More...

Chiplet Implementation via Virtual Prototyping

Assessing the cost vs. performance tradeoff. In the evolution of silicon implementation, creative solutions to costly problems have become standard practice. O... Read More...

Statistical Data from the PCB Industry

Just about all electronic equipment uses printed circuit boards or flexible circuits for wiring and packaging materials. Electronic companies design their produ... Read More...

Are Older Standards Still Valid, or Holding the Industry Back?

That’s one of the questions the new leadership at HDP plans to address in 2021. This month Marshall Andrews stepped down as the longest-serving head of The Hig... Read More...

New DfX Module for IPC-2581 Slices Design-Manufacturing Time, Errors

Latest IPC-DPMX standard offers unique bidirectional data exchange between design houses and their manufacturing partners. The authors of IPC-DPMX, previously ... Read More...

Designing for Higher Power in Smaller Form Factors

The redesign of a power adapter, using thermal modeling software. Much has been written about the benefits of moving thermal design activity higher up the prod... Read More...