Nuremberg, Germany --Siemens Logistics and Assembly Systems has opened a training facility on the campus of Senai University in Manaus, Brazil. Siemens will conduct SMT technology training for students and customers in the region.
Close cooperation between the university and company will enable research results to directly benefit the development of new Siplace machines. Siemens also equipped the center with a new SMT placement machine.Quanta led with a 24% share of the market, with Compal garnering a 15% share and Lite-On capturing 12%, said IDC.
Notebooks contributed 48% of ODM revenues, followed by the monitor and display segment with 15%.
For Taiwan-based notebook PC ODMs, 14 to 14.9" notebooks accounted for the largest proportion of shipments last year, according to IDC.
Framingham, MA -- Electronics manufacturing services provider Foxconn Electronics (the registered trade name of Hon Hai Precision Industry) overtook US-based Sanmina-SCI to become the second-largest EMS vendor worldwide, according to a recent report by International Data Corporation (IDC).
Solectron also moved down a notch from third largest in 2003 to fourth in 2004. Singapore-based Flextronics is still the largest.