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ARLINGTON, VA -- Electronics components orders swung higher in January for the seventh month in a row, according to a trade group of component manufacturers.

SAN JOSE -- Flexible printed circuit board demand will exceed $16 billion by 2015, according to a new research report.

SMYRNA, GA – A number of technical webinars will debut during Virtual PCB, the industry’s virtual trade show and conference for the PCB design, fabrication and assembly markets.

The live event will take place Mar. 2-4.

Scheduled on-demand webinars include Go Greener in Your Cleaner!; How Interconnects Can Screw Up High Speed Serial Link Signals and What Transceivers Can Do About It; Next Generation Design Data Management; Solving Mechanical Challenges with a 3D PCB Environment - Make Sure it Fits the First Time!; Status of the Proliferation of Lead-Free Alloys: 2010; Using FPGAs to Embed Test Instruments into Your PCB Design, and more.

Also available will be downloadable information about these topics: Pb-free alloys; package-on-package; advanced cleaning practices; signal integrity, and counterfeit component identification and mitigation.

Exhibiting firms include Altium, Assembléon, Bare Board Group, Cadence, CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY, Downstream Technologies, EMA Design Automation, EPEC Engineered Technologies, FHP Reps, Imagineering, Kyzen, National Instruments, PRINTED CIRCUIT DESIGN & FAB, Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA), Sunstone Circuits, UP Media Group, Zuken and more!

Register for free at https://vts.inxpo.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:4;F:QS!10100&ShowKey=1783.

Visit http://www.virtual-pcb.com for more information.

Virtual PCB is brought to you by UP Media Group, parent firm of Printed Circuit Design & Fab and Circuits Assembly.

The SMTA is an exclusive sponsor of this event.

BANNOCKBURN, IL – North American-made shipments of printed circuit boards fell 3.2% year-over-year in December while orders rose 22.1% compared to the same month in 2008.

SAN JOSE -- The Semiconductor Industry Association today reported that worldwide semiconductor sales in 2009 were $226.3 billion, a decline of 9% from 2008.

SAN JOSE – Third-quarter 2009 electronic design automation industry revenue was $1.17 billion, up 3.8% sequentially, says the EDA Consortium.

On a year-over-year basis, EDA industry revenue declined 7.2%, and the four-quarter moving average declined 13.1%.