San Diego, CA – FocalSpot has expanded its corporate office and manufacturing facilities, doubling its presence in the Scripps Ranch area of San Diego. The expansion will accommodate growing production demands for its BGA/SMT inspection and rework solutions.
Construction is expected to be completed this month. Facilities will include: administrative operations, demonstration and training rooms, manufacturing, assembly, equipment/parts warehousing and an applications/prototype lab.
Redmond, WA -- Data I/O signed a multi-year distribution agreement with Toyo Corp. Toyo will provide system installation, service and device support updates for Data I/O programming systems in Japan.
According to the company’s press release, Data I/O’s programming solutions enable high-quality results in volume production of consumer electronics, wireless devices and automotive electronics assemblies. The solutions program flash memory, microcontroller and DSP devices from leading device manufacturers such as Fujitsu, Samsung, Toshiba, Renesas, Microchip Technologies, TI and others.
FT. COLLINS, CO -- Once a site of a major Hewlett-Packard manufacturing plant, Ft. Collins is becoming attractive to major chipmakers. Intel, which already employs about 300 on the former H-P campus, will relocate its offices to a nearby 200,000 sq. ft. site recently purchased from Celestica.
DALLAS -- Texas Instruments said today it will sell its sensors and controls business to Bain Capital for $3 billion in cash. The
deal is expected to close during the first half of this year.
NEW YORK -- This year will bring a significant increase in sales of video-enabled devices because of increased content availability and a greater number of video playing devices, says the research arm of SG Cowan.
Citing the number of products on display at last week-s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, SG Cowan said the arrival of digital video is to "positively impact a wide range of semiconductor companies spanning memory to logic to analog conversion and power management."