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SHANGHAI -- One of the last of the major PCB CAD founder/owners has fallen.

Read more: End of an Era: Martin Out at Altium

TAIPEI -- Quanta, one of the world's largest electronics ODMs, is working with cloud computing developers on a slate of turnkey solutions, including offering printed circuit board and mechanical design software on a fee-for-use basis.

Read more: Taiwanese ODMs Offering CAD via the 'Cloud'

ATLANTA -- PRINTED CIRCUIT DESIGN & FAB is undertaking a survey of how printed circuit board designers, design engineers and other layout specialists use and think about various CAD tools.

Read more: PCD&F Undertaking CAD Tool Survey

DARMSTADT, GERMANY -- CST will host a free webinar on 3D electromagnetic and spin response simulation of MRI systems using microwave design software on Oct. 11.

Read more: CST Hosting 3D EMC Webinar

MULINO, OR -- Design engineers willing to share their PCB-related success stories can win an opportunity to land themselves a host of prizes, including an iPad, under a new program offered by Sunstone Circuits.

Read more: Design a Good Board, Win an IPad

EAST CLEVELAND, OH — Fifty years ago today, 33-year-old GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., invented the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode, a device that GE colleagues at the time called “the magic one” because its light, unlike infrared lasers, was visible to the human eye.

Read more: LED Inventor Celebrates 50th Anniversary