NEEDHAM, MA – Global shipments for virtual reality (VR) headsets jumped 242% during the first quarter compared to the same period last year, according to new da... Read More...
KUNSHAN, CHINA – Unimicron is planning a capital investment of $20 million in Mainland China for printed circuit board production. Read More...
PETACH-TIKVA, ISRAEL – Eltek has resumed making deliveries to its customers after a fire in one of the production rooms at its plant here. Read More...
ATLANTA – After a run of two years of overall positive sales sentiment and expectation for electronic components, the June 2022 Electronic Component Sales Trend... Read More...
CHAMPAIGN, IL – A team of researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working with PragmatIC Semiconductor, developed the first commercially v... Read More...
TEWKESBURY, UK – Trackwise Designs reported revenue of £3.3 million (US$4 million) in the first five months of 2022. Revenue for full-year 2022 is expected to b... Read More...
KEWEENAW, MI – Calumet Electronics is investing $6.5 million at a newly built 35,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility in Northern Michigan, according to reports. ... Read More...
BANNOCKBURN, IL – Total North American PCB year-to-date orders in May were down 9.2% year-over-year and 10.3% sequentially, according to IPC. Read More...
SUNDBYBERG, SWEDEN -- NCAB today acquired 100% of the shares in Kestrel International Circuits from the Merlin PCB Group for SEK 103 million ($10.1 million). Read More...
DA NANG, VIETNAM – Vector Fabrication has received an investment license for a PCB and MEMS factory, with plans to invest $60 million, according to reports. Read More...
LEOBEN, AUSTRIA – AT S Austria Technologie Systemtechnik now anticipates revenue of roughly €2.2 billion in the fiscal year 2022/23, up from previous guidance... Read More...
SAN DIEGO – Nexar, a business unit of Altium, launched Octopart CAD (http://www.pcdandf.com/pcdesign/menu-research/cad-cam-pcb-software) Model Marketplace, a fr... Read More...
PEACHTREE CITY, GA – PRINTED CIRCUIT DESIGN FAB is undertaking its annual salary survey of printed circuit board designers, design engineers and other layout ... Read More...
TAOYUAN CITY, TAIWAN – First quarter cross-strait Taiwanese PCB output totaled NT$209 billion (US$7.02 billion), up 20.6% year-over-year and a new quarterly hig... Read More...
PETACH-TIKVA, ISRAEL – Yesterday, a fire broke out in one of the production rooms in Eltek’s plant here. The fire damaged part of the production line in that ro... Read More...
Summit Interconnect’s chief executive explains the PCB fabricator’s latest buy. Summit Interconnect in May announced the acquisition of fellow printed circuit ... Read More...
A new specification tackles the application and performance of organic solderability preservatives. After many years of starts, stops and debate, an industry c... Read More...
IPC-2152 is an important baseline for determining current carrying capacity, but further work must be done for individual applications. In response to recent c... Read More...
Unwanted capacitance hanging off signal traces can cause unwanted resonances and excessive attenuation. Data rates for very high-speed data links keep climbing... Read More...
New hole formation technologies and low-cost low-loss materials are needed. Ed.: This is the fourth of an occasional series by the authors of the 2019 iNEMI Ro... Read More...
Once energy leaves a controlled path, the chances are it will cause interference and radiate from board edges. Read More...
AI Industry 4.0-aided manufacturing should incorporate CTF quality methodology. Read More...
PathWave Advanced Design System (ADS) 2023 integrated design and simulation software addresses increasing design complexity and higher frequencies for radio fre... Read More...
CSNL2512-3W current sensing resistor now includes 0.2mΩ resistance value. Read More...
Saturn PCB Design Toolkit v. 8.20 includes the following calculators: Read More...
Molex Quad-Row board-to-board connectors feature staggered-circuit layout. Read More...
KiCad 6.0.6 EDA software contains bug fixes and other minor improvements, including the following: Read More...
eCADStar 2022 PCB design software offers advanced capabilities for organization and reuse of designs, fine-tuning of high-speed circuitry, and layout and modifi... Read More...
BD9xxN1 series automotive LDO regulator ICs have stable operation at nanoscale output capacitance. Read More...
Aluminum clad laminate and catalyzed buildup film use catalyzed aluminum foil by Toyo that provides well-controlled surface texture and uniformly coated palladi... Read More...
Cadence OnCloud SaaS software provides toolsets for PCB design, multiphysics system analysis and computational fluid dynamics; direct and secure access to Caden... Read More...
TCR for CSSK0612 four terminal current sense shunt resistors has been improved down to 100ppm for resistance range from 0.5mΩ to 5mΩ. Are reportedly ideal f... Read More...
Bowman A Series Micro XRF measures smallest features on semiconductors and microelectronics. Read More...
TestScale modules can be combined in custom configurations to meet coverage needs and slot into small industrial chassis that connects to host PC using USB. Read More...
RO3003G2 laminates now include a 9µm electrodeposited HVLP foil option. Are for antenna outer layers for millimeter wave radar PCBs, for example. Read More...
UcamX Stencil seat includes all standard UcamX functionalities, supplemented with Stencil Toolbox. Read More...
KW30 1mm-pitch wire-to-board connector is available in two to eight positions. Read More...