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Yole: Despite Covid-19, 2020 is a Memory Recovery Year

08 July 2020

LYON, FRANCE – “Despite the Covid-19 outbreak, which negatively impacted the smartphone and automotive industries but spurred demand for server and PC memory fo... Read More...

Q1 PCB Sales in German Region Down Nearly 8%

07 July 2020

FRANKFURT – Sales at printed circuit board manufacturers in the Germany, Austria and Switzerland region recovered sequentially but remained down in the first qu... Read More...

SMTA Elects Anselm Board Pres., Adds Konrad

07 July 2020

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – The SMTA elected its global board of directors for the term beginning Sept. 22. Read More...

Pengding to Invest $725M on HDI, SLP Plant in China

07 July 2020

HUAI’AN, CHINA – Pengding Holding Group signed with the Huai'an Economic and Technological Development Zone to invest ¥5 billion (US$724.5 million) here on an H... Read More...

UP Media Group Announces Technical Sessions for PCB West Virtual 2020

07 July 2020

ATLANTA, GA – JULY 6, 2020 – UP Media Group Inc. today announced more than 40 technical sessions have been selected for PCB West (http://pcbwest.com/) Virtual 2... Read More...

May Global Semi Sales Up 6%

06 July 2020

WASHINGTON — Worldwide semiconductor sales were $35 billion in May, an increase of 5.8% year-over-year and 1.5% sequentially, says the Semiconductor Industry As... Read More...

IPC Bare Board Qualification Medical Device Addendum Passes Ballot

06 July 2020

BANNOCKBURN, IL – IPC membership has voted to accept a new addition covering medical devices to the industry standard for bare board qualification and acceptabi... Read More...

Times Microwave Systems to Hold Webinar on RF for Healthcare

02 July 2020

WALLINGFORD, CT – Times Microwave Systems is holding a webinar on RF and the future of healthcare July 9 and 15. Read More...

EMS/ODM Up 2.5% in 2019, But Covid Will Slow Some Markets

02 July 2020

NEVADA CITY, CA – The worldwide contract manufacturing (CM) services market increased 2.5% year-over-year in total revenue to $555 billion, a new research repor... Read More...

"Bogatin’s Practical Guide to Transmission Line Design and Characterization for Signal Integrity Applications" – A Review

01 July 2020

Everything you ever wanted to know about PCB transmission lines – and more – in a digestible format with just the right amount of math to back up the illuminati... Read More...

Methode Reports Fiscal Q4 Revenues Down 21%

30 June 2020

CHICAGO – Methode Electronics reported fiscal fourth quarter revenues of $210.6 million, down 20.8% year-over-year. Read More...

PCD&F Opens 2021 NPI Awards

30 June 2020

PRINTED CIRCUIT DESIGN FAB opened its 2021 New Product Introduction Awards (NPI) for printed circuit board fabrication. Read More...

ECIA: By End of 2020, Most Electronics Workers Will Be Back on Site

29 June 2020

ATLANTA – The tide is turning positive for large-scale reopenings among electronics components suppliers over the rest of the year. That’s according to the ECIA... Read More...

Taiwanese HDI Growth Slowed in Q1

29 June 2020

TAOYUAN CITY, TAIWAN – The Covid-19 pandemic effect on numerous end-products slowed the growth rate for HDI in the first quarter, the TPCA said. Taiwanese high-... Read More...

Covid-19 Drives Q1 Growth of IT Infrastructure Products for Cloud Environments

26 June 2020

FRAMINGHAM, MA – Vendor revenue from sales of IT infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage, and ethernet switch) for cloud environments, including pub... Read More...

FEATURES

IoT Suffers from a Lack of Standards

What the electronics industry must do to change that. Ed.: This is the seventh of an occasional series by the authors of the 2019 iNEMI Roadmap. This informati... Read More...

Monocoque Printed Circuits, Redux

A car’s Monocoque (a French term) refers to a type of vehicle construction in which the body is integral with the chassis; basically a “skin” that supports its ... Read More...

The Evolution of Four-Layer Printed Circuit Boards

And why not to cut the ground or Vdd plane. Speculation abounds over what a designer should do when making the stackup and design rules for a four-layer PCB. M... Read More...

State-of-the-Art Technology Flashes - Updates in silicon and electronics technology.

Updates in silicon and electronics technology. Ed.: This is a special feature courtesy of Binghamton University. Photovoltaic cell works at night. University ... Read More...

Differential Signal Design Rules – Or Not

A common assumption is differential signals are “equal and opposite.” Is it true? Periodically, questions about differential trace design rules come up. There ... 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...