JACKSON, MI -- EMS provider Sparton Corp. has been awarded an initial $2 million contract to produce assemblies for Raytheon-Network Centric Systems. Additional awards are anticipated over the next three years.
Sparton expects to begin production in February at its Brooksville, FL, facility. The circuit card assemblies are for the F15 AN/APX-114 Long Range Airborne IFF Interrogator System program.
CHENNAI, INDIA -- Avalon Technologies, an electronics manufacturing services
provider and a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S.-based Sienna Corp., will break ground this week on a facility outside the Madras Export Processing Zone.
The company is also close to acquiring EMS businesses in India, Japan and the U.S., according to a news report.
SAN JOSE -- Sanmina-SCI has signed a manufacturing services
agreement to build digital cinema products for QuVIS Inc.
Sanmina-SCI, a Top Tier EMS provider, will provide QuVIS with
unlimited manufacturing capacity, QuVIS said. Under the agreement, product will begin shipping in the
first quarter of 2006.
CANNES, FRANCE -- Outsourcing has become such
an integral part of successful business practice that many
organisations are embarking on outsourcing programmes almost without
thinking. Research firm Gartner today warned against such compulsive outsourcing and
advised organisations to begin a more disciplined approach to
multisourcing in order to achieve business growth and agility.
SAN JOSE -- The Semiconductor
Industry Association today applauded congressional action to
provide a significant increase in federal funding for the National
Science Foundation in 2006.
Congress appropriated $5.65 billion
for the NSF, an increase of 3.3% over last year.
PALO ALTO,
CA -- IPCore Technologies Corp., China's largest design
service company, has selected the Agilent Technologies 93000 SOC series for testing digital, mixed-signal and RF devices.
Agilent is also collaborating with IPCore on test-program and
load-board design.
"[We] found that the Agilent 93000 system
offered a scalable platform with the flexibility, accuracy and speed we
require," said Randy Cao, senior director of turnkey operations,
IPCore. "Agilent has demonstrated its strong commitment and support
capability to the high-end SOC test market in China."
Agilent has installed more than 1,000 9300 systems worldwide.