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ECIA Industry Pulse Hits 138, Strongest Sales Sentiment in Over 4 Years

ATLANTA, GA – ECIA’s January Industry Pulse survey delivered its strongest sales sentiment reading in more than four and a half years, signa... Read More...

SIIX Full Year 2025 Sales Fall 4%, Projects 141% Profit Surge in 2026

TOKYO, JAPAN – SIIX reported full-year 2025 revenue of $1.9 billion, down 4.2% year over year, while operating profit rose 3.4% to $59.3 mil... Read More...

Kitron Q4 Revenue Jumps 46%

OSLO, NORWAY – Kitron reported fourth-quarter revenue of $252.5 million, up 46% from $173.5 million in the same period last year, driven by ... Read More...

Icape Reports 2025 Revenue Up 12%

FONTENAY-AUX-ROSES, FRANCE – Icape reported consolidated 2025 revenue of $219.4 million, up 11.5% year over year, marking a return to growth... Read More...

Lacroix Reports 2025 Revenue Falls 7%

PARIS, FRANCE – Lacroix reported 2025 consolidated revenue of $483.8 million, down 6.5% year over year on a like-for-like basis, as softer d... Read More...

Silicon Wafer Shipments Rise 6% in 2025

MILPITAS, CA – Worldwide silicon wafer shipments increased 5.8% year over year in 2025 to 12,973 million square inches (MSI), marking a retu... Read More...

Wearable Tech Market Forecast to Reach $232 Billion by 2030

LONDON, UK – The global wearable technology market is expected to nearly double in value by the end of the decade, fueled by growing demand ... Read More...

Mycronic Grows Full-Year Sales 12% in 2025

STOCKHOM, SWEDEN – Mycronic reported record order intake and net sales for the full year ended in December, supported by AI-driven demand ac... Read More...

Global Semiconductor Sales Jump 26% in 2025

WASHINGTON, DC – Global semiconductor sales reached a record $791.7 billion in 2025, rising 25.6% year over year, according to new data from... Read More...

FEATURES

Vibration Analysis of PCBs for Critical Applications

Laser doppler vibrometry enables simultaneous measurement at dozens of points across populated PCBs, revealing component-level failure risks that accelerometers... Read More...

AI ‘Hallucinates.’ Why That’s Actually Good News.

Without the right context, AI gives answers that sound right but can quietly derail manufacturing decisions. It’s 9:15 AM on a Tuesday, and Maria – your rising... Read More...

A Comparison of Stencil Capabilities

How do modern stencil materials and coatings influence transfer efficiency and volume repeatability as SMT features continue to shrink? The key indicators of S... Read More...

The Marketplace for Untapped Inventory

Where excess inventory stops being clutter and starts being currency. For years, companies have treated excess electronic components like an embarrassing secre... Read More...

Building Relationships with Technology

Treating technology as a human replacement strategy is a recipe for failure. Here’s the questions you should be asking. I have good news: Your board just appro... Read More...

The Victory Plan Reborn: How the DoW is Mobilizing the Electronics Industrial Base

Innovation gets applause, manufacturing gets contracts. We’re almost out of time. That is the message underlying US Department of War Secretary Peter Hegseth’s... Read More...

Nexperia Crisis Exposes Hidden Fragility in the PCB Supply Chain

Just when the industry thought the shortage saga was over, the parts giant hit refresh on the chaos. The global electronics industry faces another shortage sit... Read More...

Beyond the Gerbers: How Unstructured Data Drives PCB Cost and Lead Time

The real bottleneck isn’t the layout; it’s decoding those half-hidden specs stuffed into a PDF. Every electronics engineer and PCB designer knows the feeling: ... Read More...

From Boards to Assemblies: Precision PCB’s Journey to In-House Manufacturing

How a longtime PCB supplier became a contract manufacturer. More than a handful of US-based printed circuit board fabricators offer some degree of assembly in ... Read More...