ENDICOTT, NY -- Endicott Interconnect Technologies and Meadville Technologies Group Ltd. have entered a licensing agreement to produce EI's patented organic substrates at the Meadville's facility in Shanghai.
Under terms of the agreement, EI maintains control of the design, prototype, new product introduction, low to medium volume production, particularly for aerospace and defense applications, sales and technical support worldwide for the CoreEZ product line. Meadville will perform high volume runs of CoreEZ products.
VANCOUVER, BC -- Nam Tai
Electronics has invested $3.4 million in three surface mount lines this quarter, raising its production capacity by about 17% based on passive chip placement.
SHANGHAI -- Boosted by demand from Samsung and LG Electronics, Chinese PCB fabricators are getting more orders for optoelectronic boards, DigiTimes reported, sourcing multiple parties.
According to those sources, optoelectronic PCB demand could grow 60 to 100% this year. Per DigiTimes, "sources estimated that a minimum of 2.4 million square feet of PCBs will be required to fulfill domestic demand in eastern China."
AU Optronics and Chi Mei Optoelectronics are two of the biggest, with 700,000 to 800,000 sq. ft. produced per month. Still, Samsung and LG require as much as 2.4 million sq. ft. of PCBs per month, the report said, an amount that could rise as much as one million sq. ft. per month next year.