PEACHTREE CITY, GA – PCEA Training is offering a five-day Certified Professional Circuit Designer (CPCD) training and certification class May 9, 16, 23, 30, and June 6 for printed circuit engineers, layout professionals, and other individuals currently serving in the design engineering industry or seeking to get into it.

Since our founding, PCEA has sought to collaborate with other associations wherever we could.

We quickly formed alliances with peers in Australia, Germany, India, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand and more. And our founders and leaders sit atop key technical committees in other organizations, such as IPC.

PCEA is the leading printed circuit design organization in the world, and in many instances these ties are intended to fill key technical gaps. We also see a mutual need to ensure our members have access to a wide range of manufacturing experts in every geography.

SAINT-HERBLAIN, FRANCE -- Lacroix reported 2024 revenue of €635.5 million ($686 million), an 8.6% year-over-year decline from 2024 on a like-for-like basis.

SINGAPORE -- Kulicke & Soffa will wind down its electronics assembly equipment business and take charges of up to $100 million as part of a revamp of its strategic plan, the company's board announced in a stock filing.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- ADAC Automotive today announced the acquisition of EBW Electronics, an electronics design and assembly company.

BANNOCKBURN, IL — The 90-day moving average shipments by North American electronics manufacturing services companies rose 1.7% in year-over-year in February and ticked up 0.2% over the previous month.

BANNOCKBURN, IL — The 90-day moving average shipments among North American printed circuit board fabricators rose 11.3% in February from a year ago, according to new data from the IPC trade group.

MILPITAS, CA - Global fab equipment spending for front-end facilities in 2025 is anticipated to increase by 2% year-over-year to $110 billion, marking the sixth consecutive year of growth since 2020, SEMI announced in its latest quarterly World Fab Forecast report.

NEEDHAM, MA – Global shipments for AR/VR headsets grew 10% in 2024, according to new data from IDC. The launch of new products during the holiday quarter, as well as multiple new entrants, helped the market return to growth after two years of declines.

TAIPEI – NAND flash prices are expected to stabilize in the second quarter, while prices for wafers and client SSDs are projected to rise, the result of production cuts and inventory restocking across the PC, smartphone, and data center sectors, TrendForce reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR - VS Industry Bhd’s net profit fell nearly 4% to RM15.38 million ($225,000) for its second quarter ended Jan 31, from RM16 million a year ago, mainly due to a sharp contraction of foreign exchange (forex) gains, which fell to RM915,000 from RM12.79 million a year earlier.

HANOVER, GERMANY – Viscom reported fiscal 2024 revenue of €84 million ($90.9 million), down 29% from a year ago.