OLATHE, KS -- Elecsys' EMS sales rose 12% in the fiscal year ended April 30 to $14.7 million. The company expects continued growth in the current fiscal year.
TAIPEI - Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn) today reported June revenues rose 5% year-over-year. The world's largest electronics ODM/EMS company reported sales of NT$304.6 billion ($10.13 billion), reversing a slower sales trend that had plagued the company much of the year.
SHANGHAI -- Overall PC shipments will rise 7% year-over-year to 493.1 million units in 2013, on strong demand for tablets. Tablets will make up 37% of the market this year, Canalys says, up from 25% in 2012.
CHENNAI, INDIA – Sanmina said it would make India a hub of its global IT operations and would increase manufacturing here.
SAN FRANCISCO — SEMI said semiconductor equipment sales will reach $44 billion in 2014, up 21% over estimated 2013 equipment spending, according to its mid-year forecast released Monday.
SAN JOSE -- Samsung this week will start construction on a 1.1 million sq. ft. research and development campus here, its largest outside of Seoul, Korea.
MCLEAN, VA – May US manufacturing technology orders totaled $430.06 million, says the Association for Manufacturing Technology, up 13.6% sequentially, but down 7.6% compared to May 2012.
NEW DEHLI, INDIA -- India will consider changes to its policy of encouraging government and private industry to buy electronics made domestically after several large multinational OEMs complained.
EAST FISHKILL, NY -- A leading semiconductor analyst today provided a somewhat more optimistic forecast for the industry's sales over the next five quarters.
HIGH WYCOMBE, BUCKS, UK – The Smart Group will present a 60-minute webinar on using solder spheres in fine-pitch area array rework on Aug. 20.
BANNOCKBURN, IL — Columnist, author and small business owner Gene Marks will keynote at the IPC Technology Market Research Conference (TMRC) in late September in Chicago. The keynote, themed “The Next Generation: Creating the Electronics Industry of the Future,” will be held Sept. 24; the TMRC meeting takes place the next day.