BANNOCKBURN, IL – The 90-day moving average bookings at North American circuit board fabricators fell 12.6% year-over-year in May, IPC said today.
Read more ...TAIPEI – Foxconn has hired Chu-Ching Hu, who in May resigned as head of Unimicron Technology’s IC substrate division.
Hu will reportedly lead the substrate business unit of Foxconn Advanced Technology, say industry sources.
FAT, located in Shangdong, eastern China, specializes in the manufacture of flexible printed circuit boards.
Prior to joining Unimicron, Hu served as president of Phoenix Precision Technology.
MELVILLE, NY -- Park Electrochemical reported fiscal first-quarter net profits fell 27% year-over-year to $7.24 million. Read more ...
CHONGQING CITY, CHINA – A pair of leading printed circuit board fabricators are among the early investors who have pledged up to $800 million in a campus to build cables and PCBs in Western China. Read more ...
HAMPSTEAD, NH – P.D. Circuits has appointed Kathleen Nargi-Toth as its technical director.
Nargi-Toth will provide technical support and education to the company’s customers and employees. She is responsible for managing the firm’s fabrication partners.
She has worked on process engineering projects with hundreds of PCB fabricators around the globe.
Nargi-Toth is the former editor-in-chief and technical editor of Printed Circuit Design and Manufacture magazine, and is a founding member of the Electronics Industry Center of Excellence. She has more than 30 years’ experience in the printed circuit board industry, having worked for a fabricator and at Enthone.
TAIPEI -- Apple's primary printed circuit board fabricators are cutting prices for the coming quarter due to waning demand for older models of iPads and iPhones, according to reports.