SAN JOSE – Preliminary December bookings at North American-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers rose 33% year-over-year and reversed a four months of decline.
Makers of semi gear posted
$1.52 billion in orders in December on a three-month average basis, up 7% sequentially, the trade group SEMI said.
BANGKOK – Fabrinet, a manufacturer of optical components, has begun work on a 300,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility near Bangkok, its fourth plant worldwide.
The factory is scheduled for completion in late 2007, and will raise
Fabrinet’s global manufacturing capacity to over one million square
feet.