EL SEGUNDO, CA -- With the second-generation iPad, Apple has held the line on the bill of materials, maintaining virtually the same costs as the first version of the device, an IHS iSuppli teardown analysis of the product has revealed.

CARLSBAD, CA -- Altium has added a "substantial" number of Microchip Technology's board-level components to its online content delivery system, the CAD software developer said today.

LAS VEGAS – PCB software developer Direct Logix has become the latest company to join the IPC-2581 Consortium, PCD&F has learned.

CAMPBELL, CA – The US PTO has awarded Sigrity a patent for the company’s automated optimal sense location capability.