CHENGDU, CHINA – Intel said it would invest $1.6 billion to upgrade its chipset manufacturing factory here.

ANAHEIM, CA -- Lark Engineering has expanded its manufacturing capacity for wire, cable and harness assemblies.

BANGKADI, MUANG, PATHUTHAMI, THAILAND -- SVI Public Co. today said preproduction operations have commenced at its Chaengwattana EMS site and full production will start by month's end.

WASHINGTON – Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $29.7 billion in October, up 9.6% year-over-year, and up 1.5% sequentially, says the Semiconductor Industry Association.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – SMTA seeks abstracts for the following events taking place in 2015:

HERNDON, VA – iNEMI’s Component Specifications for Medical Products Project has published a report on its work to identify and define a set of component-level reliability qualification methods for critical electronic components used in implantable and wearable medical devices.

BATH, ENGLAND – Environ has received the Elektra European Electronics Industry 2014 Environmental Award for its Environmental Compliance 4 Products tool.

TAIPEI – Notebook computer shipments will grow 0.6% year-over-year in 2015 to 174.6 million units, while tablet shipments will decline 3.5% to 185.6 million units, says TrendForce.

ORLANDO, FL -- IEC Electronics' largest stockholder is making a play to gain control of the board of the EMS firm.

CORONA, CA – Aqueous Technologies has acquired a new manufacturing facility here and will relocate all manufacturing, sales, service and other administrative departments.

BANNOCKBURN, IL – Total North American printed circuit board shipments increased 0.8% year-over-year in October, says IPC. Year-to-date shipments are down 1%. Sequentially, PCB shipments were down 5.2%.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Christine Taylor, a graduate student at Georgia Institute of Technology, has been selected as the recipient of the 2014 Charles Hutchins Educational Grant.