SAN JOSE — The 90-day moving average worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment bookings fell 7% year-over-year to $8.7 billion in the third quarter.

TAIPEI – The total value of the virtual reality market (including hardware and software) will reach $6.7 billion in 2016 and $70 billion in 2020, says TrendForce.

DUBLIN -- Sales of surface mount technology process and inspection equipment in the Asia-Pacific region are forecast to grow at a 7.06% CAGR from 2014 to 2019.

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT engineers have designed what may be the Band-Aid of the future: a sticky, stretchy, gel-like material that can incorporate temperature sensors, LED lights, and other electronics, as well as tiny, drug-delivering reservoirs and channels.

WASHINGTON — Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $29 billion in October, up 1.9% sequentially but down 2.5% year-over-year.

SON, THE NETHERLANDS – Neways Electronics plans to restructure its Micro Electronics division operations in Echt and China as part of a cost-cutting move.

MILWAUKEE, WI — After some dips and swells in recent years between salary increases and decreases, salaries for quality professionals are up again, this time with the largest percentage increase year-over-year since 2007, according to the American Society for Quality's 29th annual Salary Survey. 

FRAMINGHAM, MA – 2015 will be the first full year of single-digit worldwide smartphone growth, IDC predicts, citing slower demand outside North America. 

ATLANTA – UP Media Group today announced PCB West 2016 will take place Sept. 13 - 15, in Santa Clara, CA.

STAMFORD, CT -- Third-quarter worldwide server shipments grew 9.2% year-over-year, while vendor revenue increased 7.5% during the period.

ARLINGTON, VA – Mapi Foundation expects modest acceleration in US manufacturing growth over the next two years; then it is expected to decelerate, says Dan Meckstroth, Ph.D., Mapi’s vice president and chief economist.

MANAUS, BRAZIL – Cal-Comp, a subsidiary of New Kinpo Group, said it will open a new factory here.