PEACHTREE CITY, GA – March 13, 2026 – The early bird discount for the PCB East 2026 technical conference ends March 27, conference organizers said today. From March 28 through April 28, registrants will pay the advanced conference price, which is $100 more than the “early bird” rate.

TOKYO – Kaga Electronics is establishing a circuit board assembly plant in Singapore as the Japanese electronics manufacturer responds to rising demand from Chinese companies relocating production outside mainland China amid ongoing US-China trade tensions.

BENGALURU, INDIA – B2B manufacturing startup Karkhana has acquired electronics manufacturing services provider Micron EMS in a deal valued at about $1.2 million, marking the company’s first move to directly own production facilities.

WASHINGTON, DC – Global semiconductor sales totaled $82.5 billion in January, increasing 3.7% from December’s $79.6 billion and jumping 46.1% compared with $56.5 billion in January 2025, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).

BOSTON, MA – Worldwide smartphone shipments are expected to fall 12.9% in 2026 to about 1.1 billion units, marking the largest annual decline on record as a global memory shortage disrupts the consumer electronics supply chain, according to new data from IDC.