LEXINGTON, KY – EMS provider SMC today announced plans to add 18,000 sq. ft. to their current 55,000 sq. ft. facility in Lexington. The added capacity will include 16,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space and 2,000 sq. ft. of office space. In 2005, SMC completed an expansion of 18,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space at the same location.
ATLANTA - Technology Forecasters Inc. and Circuits Assembly will sponsor a Webinar, Emerging Markets for Electronic Manufacturers: A Closer Look at India and Vietnam, on April 12.
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PORTLAND, OR –
Intel Corp. invites suppliers to participate in a technology interchange in which the semiconductor company will share its vision and reveal its requirements for the supply chain. The event – Where Are We Going? Where Do We Need to Be? – will be held May 23 at the Holiday Inn Portland Airport.
Intel general manager of systems manufacturing technology development Martin Rausch will keynote the event, speaking on The Inevitable Transition to HDI.
Other topics to be discussed include underlying issues that must be overcome as the industry makes advances in package scaling and associated board density, and what needs to happen to create pull for HDI PCBs from the OEM and ODM communities.
Nine industry suppliers will outline the supply chain's abilities and present gap analyses in the areas of lamination, cost-effective microvias, metallization/etching, embedded passives, board-level underfill solutions, component size and spacing reductions, assembly equipment, rework and alternative alloys.
For more information, contact Susan Filz,
SusanFilz@ipc.org.
Registration form:
http://www.ipc.org/3.0_Industry/3.5_Councils_Associations/3.5.0_IPC/3.5.0.1_Suppliers/intel-0507/intel0507-REG.pdf
TAIPEI -- Chi Mei Optoelectronics, Taiwan's second largest LCD
maker, and
Hon Hai announced plans to form a TV component
joint venture
A Chi Mei spokeswoman said each company will contribute $14 million toward the new JV.
Hon Hai is the parent company of
Foxconn, the world's largest EMS/ODM company.