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BANNOCKBURN, IL – For Apex and Los Angeles, it’s one and done.
 
The Apex/IPC Printed Circuits Expo trade show will relocate to Las Vegas in 2008, show producer IPC said Monday. In a letter to exhibitors, IPC said the combination of a 12% drop in attendance coupled with an apparent distaste for the Los Angeles Convention factored heavily into the decision. Attendees, said the group in a letter issued Monday to exhibitors, said, "Los Angeles was the number one problem over and over again. In short, the location was not a positive experience."

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SANTA BARBARA, CA Design Solutions Inc. (DSI) has opened a new design center in Munich, Germany, Design Solutions GmbH. The facility provides engineering, design, simulation and prototype manufacturing services to the electronics industry. The state-of-the-art design center also includes a high-level FPGA and ASIC development group.
 
Sean O’Neil, president and CEO of DSI, said, “With the opening of this new design center, the German market will benefit from product engineering expertise across all disciplines. This includes electrical engineering, performance simulation, component and product packaging, PCB design, performance and reliability analysis, and much more, such as mechanical design, software development, prototype PCB fabrication, product assembly and testing.”
 
O’Neil also said that the opening of the new facility “helps DSI further its business plan of providing local design/engineering centers to global technology hubs, in order to provide local project management and support, while leveraging low-cost regions for a majority of the engineering work.”
 
DSI has seven locations in the U.S. and two in Europe.

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