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SAN JOSE -- Stanford mechanical engineering professor Dr. Beth Pruitt will keynote the 7th Annual MEMS symposium in May, the MicroElectronics Packaging and Test Engineering Council announced today.

ST. LOUIS –Bell Helicopter awarded LaBarge Inc. a $5.1 million add-on contract to produce electronics assemblies for the V-22 Osprey deicing system.

SAN JOSE -- Electronic design automation revenues fell 17.7% year-over-year in the fourth quarter to $1.32 billion. The decline was broad-based, said the EDA Consortium, which tracks the figures.

EL SEGUNDO – Shipments of low-cost netbook PC displays will nearly quadruple to 47.4 million units in 2012, up from 13.1 million units in 2008, as consumer demand for the small form-factor PCs soars, according to iSuppli Corp.

KANATA, OTTAWA – Sanmina-SCI will expand its factory here and add up to 90 workers by year-end, the company told local reporters.

NEW YORK -- Signs of life are emerging among electronics producers, a leading research firm said, but end-user demand is lagging.

LIVERMORE, CA -- Sanmina-SCI has suspended operations at its machining operations here due to a lack of business, according to a published report.

FORT WORTH – California’s loss is Texas’ gain as a Foxconn Electronics subsidiary plans to build a computer assembly plant in Fort Worth. Q-Edge is shuttering its operations in Fullerton, CA, and relocating to a 365,000 sq. ft. site north of Fort Worth.

BANNOCKBURN, IL – Phoenix International received IPC's top corporate honors for electronics assemblers, the trade group announced this week.

SAN JOSE -- The 90-day moving average sales of semiconductors worldwide fell 30.4% year-over-year in February, the Semiconductor Industry Association reported today. Sales declined 7.6% sequentially, the trade group said.