The company benefited from its thin form-factor phones, including its successful RAZR. Tina Teng, analyst, wireless communications, for iSuppli, notes, “About 40% of Motorola’s second-quarter unit shipments were of its trademark thin form-factor phones, and 32.8% were RAZRs. Motorola’s market-share gains were most notable in China, North America and India.”

LG Electronics slid to fifth place on a 1.9% decline in unit shipments due to competition in the U.S. market with rival Motorola. The company’s most-talked-about mobile phone, Chocolate, is expected to be available in the U.S. market in the fourth quarter to help boost the company’s results.

TORONTO – SMTC Corp. reported revenue of $61.1 million and net income of $1.3 million, or $0.09 per share, for the second quarter ended July 2, up from revenue of $57 million and net income of $0.3 million from Q2 2005. The results are also up from the first quarter of 2006, when the company reported revenue of $59.9 million and net income of $1.0 million, or $0.06 per share.  
 
Gross profit for the quarter was $6.8 million, or 11.2% of revenue, compared with $6.1 million, or 10.1%, for the previous quarter and $4.7 million, or 8.3% of revenue for Q2 2005.
 
John Caldwell, president and chief executive, said in a statement, “Strengthening revenue resulted from increased orders from both long standing and newer customers while improved margins in part reflect favorable customer and product mix.” 
 
“The company again affirms annual guidance provided at the beginning of the year indicating that 2006 is expected to be a year of growth in both revenues and earnings,” stated Caldwell.  “We expect continuing revenue growth in the last half of the year and increased net income.”
 
On July 21, SMTC was notified of the approval of a U.S. income tax refund of $2.7 million plus interest relating primarily to fiscal years 1999 and 2000. It is anticipated that the refund will be received in Q3 2006. Separately, on July 31, redundant land located in Texas was sold for net proceeds of approximately $1 million. Both transactions are expected to be recorded in the third quarter of 2006 and proceeds of approximately $4 million applied to reduce indebtedness.

Even while locked in an intense price war with AMD, Intel sells about 80% of the world's microprocessors. But AMD has eaten up about 5 percentage points of Intel's market share in the past year with better performing chips.

MONTREAL -- Triton Electronik is the first contract manufacturer in Canada to achieve certification to IECQ QC 080000, the new International Specification for RoHS compliance.

Triton is a turnkey PCBA, cable harness, box build and systems CM with additional plants in Saint-Eustache, Quebec, and Kitchener, Ontario. The other facilities will complete QC 080000 Certification within the next few months. NSAI will perform all three certification audits.

Contact Manufacturing Services, located in Mt. Laurel, NJ, helped to implement the certification.

"QC 080000 Certification provides our customers the assurance they need that all Triton Electronik divisions are capable of manufacturing fully RoHS compliant products - not just Pb-free,” said Ben Frank, VP of sales and marketing. "CMS provided us with the experience and support that we needed to achieve certification quickly and cost effectively at all three facilities".

Demonstration of RoHS compliance has become important since the EU published its RoHS Enforcement Guidance Document in May.  To meet these guidelines, a company is expected to have a process-based Compliance Assurance System in place. QC 080000 certification demonstrates that a company has a CAS.