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Hon Hai Posts Record January Revenue Up 36% Year Over Year

TAIPEI, TAIWAN – Hon Hai Precision Industry reported record January revenue of $23 billion, up 36% year over year, driven by strong shipment... Read More...

North American EMS Bookings Jump 29% Month Over Month as December Book-to-Bill Hits 1.24

WASHINGTON, DC – North American electronics manufacturing services (EMS) bookings surged 28.7% month over month in December and rose 5.1% ye... Read More...

North American PCB Bookings Lead Shipments as December Book-to-Bill Reaches 1.18

WASHINGTON, DC – North American printed circuit board shipments increased 11.0% year over year in December, while bookings also rose 11.0% c... Read More...

Patton Acquires Practical Technologies

BALTIMORE, MD – Patton LLC has acquired the assets of Practical Technologies, adding a 20,000-square-foot Baltimore-area manufacturing facil... Read More...

Benchmark Reports Q4 Revenue Up 7% Year Over Year

TEMPE, AR – Benchmark Electronics reported fourth-quarter revenue of $704 million, up 7% from $657 million a year earlier, as growth in aero... Read More...

Flex Q3 Revenue Rises 8% YoY

AUSTIN, TX – Flex reported third quarter net sales of $7.1 billion, up 8% year over year, exceeding company guidance as strength across dive... Read More...

Fabrinet Guides Q3 Revenue Up to $1.2B After 36% YoY Surge

BANGKOK – Fabrinet reported record quarterly results and raised its outlook for the third quarter as demand accelerated across telecom, data... Read More...

Aimtron Acquires ICS to Expand US Footprint

DECATUR, IN – Aimtron Electronics Limited has acquired ICS Company, a US-based electronics system design and manufacturing (ESDM) and origin... Read More...

Scanfil to Invest $10.6M in Suzhou Plant

SUZHOU, CHINA – Scanfil is investing EUR 9 million (about US$10.6 million) on the expansion of its Suzhou plant, driven by a positive custom... 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...