FRAMINGHAM, MA – Worldwide spending on augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) is forecast to be $18.8 billion in 2020, an increase of 78.5% over 2019, according to International Data Corp.

EGER, HUNGARY – Eurocircuits has invested €5 million in equipment and software in 2019, its largest single-year sum to date.

TAIPEI -- Wistron is looking at opening a campus in Vietnam as a hedge against the trade war consuming China.

BANNOCKBURN, IL — October printed circuit board sales and orders among North American fabricators continued to outpace last year's, IPC announced today.

Minneapolis, MN -- SMTA announced that abstracts are now accepted for several technical conferences taking place in 2020. 

FT. LAUDERDALE, FL – Element Solutions today announced a prize competition aimed at students in metal coatings science.

AUSTN, TX -- Continued monolithic integration is expensive and can suffer from the defect density yield loss associated with large die.

NEWARK, NY – IEC Electronics Corp. reported fiscal fourth quarter revenues of $43.9 million, an increase of 28.4% year-over-year and 9% sequentially.

TEMPE, AZ – Amtech Systems reported fiscal fourth quarter net revenue of $20.2 million, down 12.6% year-over-year and 3.8% sequentially.

WASHINGTON – The Department of Defense, GSA, and NASA are issuing a final rule amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to require contractors and subcontractors to report to the Government-Industry Data Exchange Program (GiDEP) certain counterfeit or suspect counterfeit parts and certain major or critical nonconformances.

KAMPALA, UGANDA – Engo Holdings launched its computer and mobile phone manufacturing plant here, according to reports.

MUNICH — Indra Setiawan of SIIX EMS in Indonesia won top honors in the annual IPC hand soldering world championship.