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CHICAGO -- Newark InOne, a small-quantity distributor of electronics components and test equipment, has added to its product line pre-calibrated test equipment, an expanded range of panel instrumentation, and custom capabilities for analog and digital panel meters, and controllers.

In a statement, the company said its Newark InOne Services metrology lab in Colorado is calibrating clamp meters, digital multimeters, oscilloscopes and benchtop power supplies from Fluke, Tektronix, Agilent, B&K, Amprobe and Megger. Certification with data accompanies all test equipment.

"Newark InOne Services is all about saving our customers time and increasing their productivity," said Paul Tallentire, president, Newark InOne. "When you buy a scope or meter from us that's already been calibrated, you can start using it from day one."

In July 2005, Newark InOne purchased the assets of Colorado-based R&R Instrumentation and transferred all of its business and employees to create the new division. Read more ...
PALO ALTO -- King Yuan Electronics Corp., an integrated back-end service provider in Taiwan, has purchased an Agilent Technologies 93000 Pin Scale system to add to its Agilent 93000 installed base. The system will be used for testing complex SOCs (systems-on-a-chip) for applications such as PCI Express, Serial ATA and HyperTransport.

"We are seeing a growing demand for the 93000 Pin Scale system, especially from customers wanting faster and more economical test solutions for high-complexity, high-accuracy SOC devices," said Gauss Chang, KYEC assistant vice president in charge of sales, marketing and platform evaluation. "We chose the 93000 Pin Scale system because it gives us the flexibility to measure a wide range of devices with very high accuracy at a low cost of test."

The system supports up to 2,048 pins -- enough for multisite test or high-pin-count devices. The tester scales to 3.6 Gb/s to address high-speed interface applications targeted for KYEC's system.

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ROCHESTER, NY -- Hover-Davis Inc., a provider of component feeders, will exclusively distribute the Laurier tray feeding product family to the worldwide end-user market. Terms were not disclosed.

Laurier’s OEM product offerings includes automated handling of JEDEC trays and waffle packs.

"Our target is to offer a comprehensive set of feeding solutions to the market,” said Roland Heitmann, Hover Davis director of semiconductor feeding solutions. “By adding the capability of handling JEDEC trays and waffle packs, we take another significant step to being a complete feeding solution provider for our customers.”

Laurier, part of Besi, manufactures back-end microelectronic assembly equipment.
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TOYKO -- A pair of leading Japanese laminate suppliers are raising prices, according to a new report. In mid September, Matsushita Electric raised prices of copper laminates and prepreg about 15%.

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SAN FRANCISCO -- IBM's successful recent quarter is good news for several companies that supply Big Blue with components and assemblies.

Among the big winners: Avnet and Arrow. IBM outsources an estimated $3 billion of manufacturing to the EMS industry and sells roughly $2.5 billion annually of hardware through Arrow and Avnet, according to Deutsche Bank.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- SMTA is looking for speakers on converting to Pb-free for its one-day RoHS-compliance worksho, to be held Dec. 7 in Dallas.

Details on this workshop can be found at smta.org/education/symposia/symposia.cfm.

Speakers will need a 30-minute PowerPoint presentation, but no papers are required.
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