caLogo

News

BURNSVILLE, MN – Vapor phase manufacturer R&D Technical Services said today that it has relocated to a new manufacturing facility here, about one mile from its previous location. 

The firm says the facility enables them to create better manufacturing flow for production and respond more efficiently to customers’ needs.

R&D signed a lease that will save them nearly 30% on the firm’s annual rate, says president David Suihkonen.

R&D provides equipment for SMT reflow, Pb-free reflow, curing, drying, mechanical attachment and plastic package testing.

TEMPE, AZ – Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in August for the 25th consecutive month, says the Institute for Supply Management.

The August PMI fell a slight 0.3 percentage point to 50.6%. New orders were 49.6%, up 0.4 percentage point. Production dropped 3.7 points to 48.6%, and inventories rose 3 points to 52.3%. Customer inventories were up 2.5 points to 46.5%, while backlogs increased 1 percentage point to 46%.

“The PMI registered 50.6%, a decrease of 0.3 percentage point from July, indicating expansion in the manufacturing sector for the 25th consecutive month, at a slightly slower rate. The production index registered 48.6%, indicating contraction for the first time since May of 2009, when it registered 45%. The new orders and backlog of orders indexes edged up slightly from July, but both indexes are indicating contraction in August at slower rates than in July. The rate of increase in prices slowed for the fourth consecutive month, dropping another 3.5 percentage points in August to 55.5%. The overall sentiment is one of concern and caution over the domestic and international economic environment, which is affecting customers' confidence and willingness to place orders, at least in the short term,” said Bradley J. Holcomb, chair of ISM.

The overall economy grew for the 27th consecutive month, the firm says.

ARLINGTON, VAJedec Solid State Technology Association has published release 4 of the DDR3 serial presence detect document.

The updated specifications support three new memory module types, and are now available for free download at http://www.jedec.org/sites/default/files/docs/4_01_02_11R21A.pdf.

The JC-45 Committee for Memory Modules developed the SPD specification in conjunction with the development of the new module types, with the objective of enabling performance optimizations based on the characteristics of the DDR3 memories used on each module. 

“This release of the DDR3 SPD specification adds support for load reduction DIMMs used in high-end computing platforms and also for 16b-SO-DIMMs and 32b-SO-DIMMs used for embedded applications such as printers,” said Mian Quddus, chairman of Jedec's JC-45 Committee for DRAM Modules.

Modules using the new parameters in DDR3 SPD document release 4 will be released by manufacturers in the next year, Jedec says.

Page 2762 of 4990

Don't have an account yet? Register Now!

Sign in to your account