SAN JOSE, CA — Flex reported net sales of $7.8 billion for its third quarter, up from $6.61 billion in the same quarter last year.

BANNOCKBURN, IL — December shipments by North American printed circuit board fabricators fell 1.7% from a year ago and 5.1% sequentially.

BANNOCKBURN, IL — North American electronics manufacturing services (EMS) bookings in December decreased 22.7% year-over-year and decreased 2.9 percent from the previous month. 

PEACHTREE CITY, GA – CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY today announced the 2023 New Product Introduction Award winners for electronics assembly equipment, materials and software.

CLEVELAND — StenTech has acquired fellow stencil and fixture designer Advanced Tooling Design for an undisclosed amount.

MILPITAS, CA — Electronic System Design (ESD) industry revenue increased 8.9% from $3.46 billion in Q3 2021 to $3.76 billion in Q3 2022, the ESD Alliance, a SEMI Technology Community, announced in its latest Electronic Design Market Data (EDMD) report. The four-quarter moving average rose 13.4%.

PEACHTREE CITY, GA – The PCEA Conferences Task Group today announced the technical program for PCB East 2023, featuring more than 60 hours of in-depth electronics engineering training.

STAMFORD, CT — Worldwide semiconductor revenue increased 1.1% in 2022 to total $601.7 billion, up from $595 billion in 2021, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. The combined revenue of the top 25 semiconductor vendors increased 2.8% in 2022 and accounted for 77.5% of the market.

ROUND ROCK, TX — East/West Manufacturing Enterprises has announced that it has achieved record annual revenue growth of 50% for the last two years in a row.

TORONTO — EMS provider Artaflex has announced the acquisition of Custom Rapid Solutions (CRS), a provider of quick turn PCB assemblies in the Toronto area.

Aurelius Technologies Bhd has proposed to place out up to 10% of the company’s total share base to raise as much as RM75.22 million ($17.35 million) for facility upgrades and debt repayment.

NEEDHAM, MA — Global PC shipments fell below expectations in the fourth quarter as 67.2 million PCs were shipped, down 28.1% from the prior year, according to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker.