DALLAS -- EMS company
TXP Corp. took another blow
last week as a major creditor demanded reimbursement by today.
YA
Global on Jan. 8 notified TXP of its default over a failure
to pay more than $250,000 and is demanding the company assemble all its
pledged property, which YA Global intends to take possession of today.
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SANTA CLARA, CA – EMS firm NBS will acquire
CompServ, whose president will head the companies, the company said today. Financial
terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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SAN JOSE -- Flextronics is analyzing the potential effects of
Nortel’s
impending bankruptcy on the EMS company’s finances and operations.
The contract assmbler has contracted with
Blackstone Group as a
financial adviser to study the impact, the company revealed.
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SAN JOSE – The
MicroElectronics Packaging and Test Engineering Council has named Ronald Steger, partner-in-charge of global semiconductor practice,
KPMG, as keynote speaker for its Feb. 19 symposium in San Jose.
In his presentation, The Consumer Electronics Boom - How Semiconductor and Consumer Electronics Companies Can Improve Cost, Time-To-Market and Product Quality, Steger will provide analysis of survey results, with a particular emphasis on time-to-market and cost-reduction initiatives.
Other topics at the symposium, titled Semiconductor Packaging – Impacting the Age of Consumer Electronics, include time-to-market and consumer semiconductor packaging; cost-of-ownership challenges for consumer products; solutions for consumer product miniaturization, and advancing technologies for consumer electronics.