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LAS VEGAS – iNEMI is organizing several new efforts to help industry collaboratively address common challenges. Among the new projects scheduled for launch this spring are Pb-Free Alloy Alternatives, Pb-Free Early Failure, Boundary Scan Adoption and Solder Paste Deposition.
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BANNOCKBURN, IL – Ramon Mendez and Brandon Gore won top honors for their papers at Apex this week, beating out more than 100 other paper submissions.
Mendez, a process development engineer at
Celestica, and coauthors Mario Moreno, German Soto, Jessica Herrera and Craig Hamilton, won the International Best Paper for “Design for Manufacturability in Lead Free Wave Solder Process.”
EL SEGUNDO – Reductions in chip inventory levels
often indicate a rise in global semiconductor sales, but an expected decline in
surplus stockpiles during the last quarter is revealing troubling signs of
market weakness, says
iSuppli Corp.
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ROLLING MEADOWS, IL – DEK USA named Brian Lau general manager – Americas, effective immediately. He was formerly Group Manager, SMT Sales at Panasonic.
Lau will be based in the Chicago suburbs and report to executive vice president John Hartner.
CUPERTINO – John Burke of RoHS USA will present an all-day workshop next month on designing and building environmentally sound electronics.
The workshop takes place May 8 at the University of Santa Cruz’s Cupertino campus.
The course will discuss environmentally friendly electronics, how to build them, and the legislation surrounding them.
Class fees will be donated to Greenpeace.
For more information, visit
http://tinyurl.com/347t4g.