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NEWS

Solstice Advanced Materials Completes Spin-Off from Honeywell

MORRIS PLAINS, NJ – Solstice Advanced Materials began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol SOLS following the completion of its spin-of... Read More...

Source Engineering Expands into SMT with Acquisition of AimTek

PLYMOUTH, MN – Source Engineering Manufacturing has acquired AimTek, extending its production capabilities into the surface mount technolo... Read More...

Q1 Fabrinet Revenue Up 21.6%

BANGKOK – Fabrinet reported first quarter fiscal 2026 revenue of $978.1 million, up 21.6% from $804.2 million in the same period last year. ... Read More...

Q4 Sanmina Revenue Up 7.4%

SAN JOSE, CA – Sanmina reported yearly revenue of $8.1 billion, a 7.4% increase over the prior year. Cash flow from operations for the year ... Read More...

Coherix Expands Ann Arbor Operations

ANN ARBOR, MI – Coherix is expanding its North American manufacturing and product development operations, investing nearly $1 million to sup... Read More...

Q3 Global Silicon Wafer Shipments Up 3% YoY, SEMI Reports

MILPITAS, CA – Worldwide silicon wafer shipments rose 3.1% year-on-year in the third quarter to 3,313 million square inches (MSI), according... Read More...

Global Semiconductor Sales Climb 15.8% in Q3

WASHINGTON, DC – Worldwide semiconductor sales reached $208.4 billion in the third quarter, rising 15.8% from the previous quarter, accordi... Read More...

North American EMS Market Stabilizes as September Book-to-Bill Reaches 1.31

BANNOCKBURN, IL – The Global Electronics Association reported that North America’s EMS industry continued to stabilize in September 2025, se... Read More...

North American PCB Shipments Surge 32% in September as Year-to-Date Growth Tops 10%

BANNOCKBURN, IL – The Global Electronics Association reported strong September results for the North American PCB industry, highlighting dou... Read More...

FEATURES

Outsourcing Electronics Product Design and Development

Nine critical checks for OEMs to avoiding bottlenecks. Established OEMs with ambitious growth goals often hit a wall as they expand their product ranges. Inter... Read More...

On Flying, Finding and the Trade Show Floor

Somewhere between the badge scanner beep and missing business cards, community happens. I’ve been reading to my son before bed lately. And now that we’ve (merc... Read More...

Designing for Durability: What Parylene Means for High-Rel Electronics

Test points, underfills and connectors: rethinking legacy rules for parylene. Conformal coatings come in several types, each with its specific properties and p... Read More...

Cold Paste, Hot Mess

Avoiding solder paste failures through proper handling and preparation. Our technical support team often sees the same preventable issues repeat themselves. Th... Read More...

Among PCB Design, Raises are Up, Benefits are Down and Deadlines Don’t Budge

Boards aren’t the only things getting more complex. Workloads are too. PCB designers are, by and large, a veteran crew. Many have been in the game for decades,... Read More...

Tracking Giants: Inside the World’s Top PCB Fabricators

From Shenzhen to Southeast Asia: The changing map of PCB production. Accurately investigating the revenues of the world’s largest PCB fabricators is confoundin... Read More...

Smart Factory Evolution: Innovations in Automated Production

Maintaining stable production through error and predictive detection. As industry shifts from the Internet of things, entailing machine-to-machine (M2M) and pe... Read More...

Component Dynamics: Where Market Intelligence Meets Distribution

Component Dynamics is showing how independent distributors can guide their customers in tricky times. It’s well-established that the Covid component crisis for... Read More...

Cold Solder Joints

Why they occur, and what to do about them. Soldering, the process of joining two or more metals through the application of heat, has been around for millennia,... Read More...