HAVERHILL, MA – Circuit Technology Center has added several new procedures covering ball grid array component reballing and inspection to its online guidebook.

NANNING, CHINA – United Time Technology (UTime) and the People's Government of Jiangnan District in Nanning City signed an investment agreement for UTime to establish 20,000 sq. m. manufacturing facilities for a line of smart telecom devices here.

SANTA CLARA, CA – The Printed Circuit Engineering Association today announced it has signed a letter of intent to acquire certain assets of UP Media Group Inc., including its signature publications and industry-leading trade shows. The deal establishes PCEA as the leading association for printed circuit engineers worldwide, with over 2.5 million engagements annually to printed circuit engineers, designers, fabricators and assemblers.

WASHINGTON – The US Department of Commerce is establishing an early alert system to detect supply chain shortages in the semiconductor industry, according to reports.

BOSTON – Creation Technologies has completed the acquisition of IEC Electronics Corp.

CAMBRIDGE, UK – The high-temperature and time-consuming reflow process leaves space for electrically conductive adhesives, according to a new IDTechEx report. ECAs comprise a metal powder embedded within a polymer resin and are well suited to applications that require electronic components to be mounted on anything other than a conventional FR4 substrate, especially when the substrate material is thermally fragile.

WASHINGTON – Global semiconductor industry sales were $47.2 billion in August, an increase of 29.7% year-over-year and 3.3% sequentially, says the Semiconductor Industry Association.

TAIPEI – Foxconn reported record-high third quarter sales of NT$1.4 trillion (US$50 billion), up 8.8% year-over-year and 3.4% sequentially.

SAN LUIS POTOSI, MEXICO – CCL Industries has signed a binding agreement to acquire Desarrollo e Investigación and Fuzetouch (Singapore) (collectively D&F) for some $50.7 million, according to reports.

WASHINGTON – The US Defense Department is allocating another round of funding to a research effort for lead-free electronics in high-performance defense areas.

NEWARK, NY – Creation Technologies’ cash tender offer deadline to purchase IEC Electronics has been extended to Oct. 4, the electronics manufacturing services companies jointly announced.

NEEDHAM, MA – Spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud infrastructure, including dedicated and shared environments, decreased 2.4% year-over-year in the second quarter to $16.8 billion, according to International Data Corp.