SAINT-HERBLAIN, FRANCE – Lacroix Group has acquired eSoftThings, consolidating its R&D center and strengthening its positioning around industrial IoT and artificial intelligence, the firm says. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.

BILLINGSTAD, NORWAY – Kitron reported second quarter revenue of NOK 1.04 billion (US$110.6 million), an increase of 21% year-over-year. Growth adjusted for currency effects was 11%.

CLINTON, NY – Indium’s Ning-Cheng Lee, Ph.D., VP of Technology, and John H. Lau, Ph.D., CTO, Unimicron, coauthored Assembly and Reliability of Lead-Free Solder Joints.

TAIPEI – Foxconn Electronics reported consolidated revenues of NT$360.5 billion (US$12.3 billion) for June, down 9% year-over-year and 6.8% sequentially.

LYON, FRANCE – “Despite the Covid-19 outbreak, which negatively impacted the smartphone and automotive industries but spurred demand for server and PC memory for stay-at-home activities, 2020 is expected to be a year of recovery,” said Simone Bertolazzi, Ph.D., technology and market analyst, Semiconductor, Memory & Computing at Yole Développement. “At Yole, we see the beginning of a new era of prosperity for the memory industry.”

KUANTAN, MALAYSIA – TT Electronics’ Global Manufacturing Solutions division is opening operations in Kuantan, Malaysia, in response to customer demand for an additional manufacturing center in Asia.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – The SMTA elected its global board of directors for the term beginning Sept. 22.

MORRISVILLE, NC – Mostafa Aghazadeh of Intel has been elected chairman of the iNEMI board of directors.

MANAUS, BRAZIL – AIM Solder opened a new stocking facility here.

ATLANTA, GA – JULY 6, 2020 – UP Media Group Inc. today announced more than 40 technical sessions have been selected for PCB West Virtual 2020 this fall. The conference, which is moving to an online platform because of the novel coronavirus, takes place September 7-10.

WASHINGTON — Worldwide semiconductor sales were $35 billion in May, an increase of 5.8% year-over-year and 1.5% sequentially, says the Semiconductor Industry Association.

BANNOCKBURN, IL – IPC membership has voted to accept a new addition covering medical devices to the industry standard for bare board qualification and acceptability following industry review. IPC-6012 Medical Device Addendum should be ready by the end of this summer, says the task group chairman, Jan Pedersen.