LIVINGSTON, SCOTLAND -- Jabil Circuit will close its EMS plant here by year end and lay off more than 150 workers, the company said. 

NIS, SERBIA -- Integrated Micro-Electronics (IMI) has igned an agreement whereby the Serbian government will pay it about $7,300 for each of the more than 1,200 employees it plans to hire at its plant in Nis.

CAMBRIDGE, UK – Stretchable electronics will become a $600 million market by 2027, says IDTechEx.

SRI CITY, ANDRA PRADESH, INDIA -- Xiaomi will open a second manufacturing unit here in concert with Foxconn, its main ODM, the company said this week.

ROCHESTER, NY — The American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics) announces that the 2016 Integrated Photonic Systems Roadmap (IPSR) is now available for download.

CORINTH, MS — KeytronicEMS plans to invest $500,000 in its facility here, adding 75 jobs over the next three years.

MILPITAS, CA – North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers posted three-month average worldwide billings of $1.97 billion in February.

CRANSTON, RI – A free eight-page Gannon & Scott white paper describes a thermal reduction process that operates at lower temperatures and uses a multi-stage environmental control system to overcome the challenge of minimizing environmental impact in pyrometallurgical recovery processes.

TAIPEI -- Wistron's revenues rebounded in the fourth quarter, rising to NT$210 billion ($6.9 billion).

WASHINGTON – ITI today said it urged the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to continue to support rules requiring due diligence on so-called conflict minerals rules under the Dodd-Frank Act’s section 1502.

BANNOCKBURN, IL — IPC today announced its support for a new European Union rule regarding the sourcing of conflict minerals in high risk zones.

TAIPEI -- The growing user base of smart handheld devices and related expansion of Internet-based services have generated enormous demand for cloud computing and cloud storage, and with it, data centers.