SAN JOSE –Texas Instruments VP of emerging medical applications Doug Rasor will keynote the upcoming Medical Electronics symposium: Technology Concepts Enabling Product Reality.
His talk, How Technology will Revolutionize Healthcare in the 21st Century and Beyond, will highlight the third annual MicroElectronics Packaging and Test Engineering Council event.
The event takes place Sept. 25 at Arizona State University in Tempe.
Other sessions will include Revolutionary Concepts in Medical Electronics; Advanced Materials for Medical Electronics; Key Enabling Technologies, and Next Generation of Bio-Medical Systems.
SMYRNA, GA – The PCB West 2008 two-day exhibition will be held Sept. 16 – 17 at the Santa Clara Marriott in Santa Clara, CA.
The exhibition features a sold-out show floor of 46 exhibiting companies for the PCB design industry. Exhibitors include Advanced Assembly, Applied Spectra, Dassault Systemes, Elgris Technologies, EMA Design Automation, Intercept Technology, IPC, JetPCB, National Instruments, Sigrity, Taconic, T-Tech, Valor Computerized Systems, X2y Attenuators, and others.
PCB West is for PCB engineers, designers, fabricators and managers and includes a five-day conference of more than 35 technical courses.
TAIPEI – Compal Electronics today loweredits annual sales guidance by 9 to 13%, citing slowing US and European demand. The company, the world's second largest contract assembler of laptops, expects to ship 28 million to 29 million units this year, down from a previous forecast of 32 million. The company also forecast third-quarter shipments would grow 15% sequentially, down from earlier guidance of 20%.