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SINGAPORE – Flex posted net sales for the fiscal first quarter 2018 of just over $6 billion, up 2.2% year-over-year.

Read more: Flex Posts Fiscal Q1 Net Sales Up 2%

WASHINGTON – Today technology industry trade group ITI released a statement after congressional leadership and White House officials released their joint statement on tax reform:

Read more: ITI Urges Tech Tax Reform

ARMONK, NY -- IBM today announced that its engineers have been granted a patent on an approach for utilizing the inherent structure of a printed circuit board (PCB) to protect cryptographic keys and codes in a manner that is designed to be highly tamper-resistant.

Read more: IBM Invention Uses PCB Layers to Protect Encryption Codes

SAN JOSE, CA – Sanmina reported fiscal third quarter revenue of $1.71 billion, up 2.4% year-over-year and 1.8% sequentially.

Read more: Sanmina Reports Fiscal Q3 Revenue Up 2.4%

WASHINGTON – US president Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order this afternoon to start a comprehensive government review of the defense industrial base, including labor and the defense supply chain, according to published reports.

Read more: Trump to Initiate Review of US Defense Industrial Base

NIEDERNHALL, GERMANY -- A pair of domestic printed circuit board manufacturers are collaborating on 3D-printing of solder masks, saying it offers new possibilities for miniaturization and a "technological quantum leap."

Read more: Würth, FELA Collaborating on 3D-Printing of Solder Mask