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SYDNEY -- Altium reported fiscal first-quarter sales rose 3% year-over-year to $11.7 million. For the period ended Sept. 30, total revenue was up 12% to $14.6 million.

Read more: Altium's Sept. Sales Up on APAC Demand

ATLANTA – PCB West show attendance rose 20.3% year-over-year, boosted in part by a 22% increase in exhibitors. Conference attendance jumped 31% over 2012 as printed circuit board designers, fabricators and assemblers flocked to the event’s largest technical program in years, said UP MEDIA GROUP, which produces the annual Silicon Valley trade show.

Read more: PCB West Attendance Up 20% YoY

MARLBOROUGH, MA – Printed circuit board manufacturer Eagle Circuits is now working with FabStream to create a customized version of FabStream’s SoloPCB design software.

Read more: Eagle Circuits, FabStream Creating Customized SoloPCB Design Software

KARLSRUHE, GERMANY – Altium promoted Martin Harris to chief sales officer.

Read more: Altium Promotes Harris to CSO

MUNICH – Zuken has named Humair Mandavia executive director of its new SOZO Center in San Jose, effective immediately. Mandavia will lead Zuken’s effort to collaborate with customers and the design community to provide more timely and targeted solutions for their increasingly complex product development requirements.

Read more: Zuken Names Mandavia to Head San Jose R&D Site

NEW YORK -- BitSyncom is planning a contest to create an open source printed circuit board design for its second-generation ASIC chips. The new chips will use a 55nm technology and reportedly will run four times as fast as the firm's first-generation 110nm chips. The winner will receive 5,000 chips, totaling 7.5 TH/s overclocked.

Read more: ASIC Designer Plans Open Source PCB Design Contest