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TAIPEI -- Flextronics is upping the ante in the notebook PC wars, as the EMS firm reportedly is set to add 1,500 workers to its Taiwan-based unit.

TAIPEI -- Compal Electronics shipped 7.9 million laptop PCs in the second quarter, up 25% sequentially and beating company forecasts.

BRIDGEWATER, MA -- Chase Corp. today reported revenues of $25.1 million for May quarter, down 26% year-over-year.

EL SEGUNDO, CA – Amid lingering economic woes and continuing poor visibility into future demand trends, iSuppli last night lowered its forecasts for global semiconductor and electronics equipment revenue in 2009. The research firm cited lagging auto sales as the major drag on a recovery.

TEMPE, AZ – The burdened cost of labor for electronics manufacturing services in the coming quarter is expected to be flat in the US and most geographies.

SEOUL – AOI OEM Mirtec has been awarded contracts reportedly totaling more than $15 million with certain undisclosed mobile solution manufacturers.

SAN JOSE – A new SEMI white paper details the rapid progress of 3-D IC integration technology, including through-silicon via developments.

AUSTIN, TX — Some 25% of LCD TVs shipped in the first quarter were made by external OEMs/EMS, up 1% sequentially.

STAMFORD, CT -- Gartner Group today issued a lower outlook for worldwide IT spending this year. The firm now predicts a 6% drop in 2009, to $3.2 billion. Hardware sales will drop 16.3, the researchers said, citing reluctance on the part of corporate and consumer buyers.

In March, the firm guided for a overall drop on 3.8%, including software and services.

A recovery should come in 2010, Gartner said. The firm forecasts 2.3% growth overall next year, with hardware sales flat.

LONDON -- Electronics distributor Premier Farnell is accepting scholarship applications from students worldwide who are registered in a full-time electrical and electronics engineering course in the 2009 entry year.

SAN JOSE -- Call it EMS Harmony. EMS consulting group Charlie Barnhart & Associates has launched an online program said to enable OEMs to identify appropriate electronics manufacturing services partners.

BANNOCKBURN, IL — A US trade group yesterday launched a campaign to convince the environmental agencies and governments of Germany and Sweden to keep Tetrabromobisphenol(a) (TBBPA) legal in electronics products.