SUNNYVALE, CA -- Google Cloud today launched Visual Inspection AI, a new purpose-built solution to help manufacturers, consumer packaged goods companies, and other businesses worldwide reduce defects and deliver significant operational savings from the manufacturing and inspection process.

JOHOR, MALAYSIA -- An electronics plant owned by ATA Industrial is reportedly under investigation for allegedly subjecting workers to excessive overtime demands.

MILPITAS, CA — Semiconductor manufacturers worldwide will have started construction on 19 new high-volume fabs by the end of this year and break ground on another 10 in 2022 to meet accelerating demand for chips across a wide range of markets including communications, computing, healthcare, online services and automotive, SEMI highlighted today in its quarterly World Fab Forecast report.

MORRISVILLE, NC – iNEMI will hold a webinar June 30, along with Freddy Gilbert of Zestron, on causes and cures of delamination, cracks and blisters in conformal coating layers.

MILPITAS, CA – SEMI today announced support for a Congressional bill that would create a 25% federal tax credit for investments in semiconductor manufacturing facilities and equipment, as well as facilities and equipment to produce semiconductor manufacturing tools. The Facilitating American-Built Semiconductors (FABS) Act alternately allows companies to receive the tax credit as a direct payment.

ST. PETERSBURG, FL – Jabil reported fiscal third quarter net revenue of $7.2 billion, an increase of 13.9% year-over-year.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ – IC Insights raised its 2021 worldwide IC market forecast to growth of 24%. The global IC market is expected to exceed $500 billion for the first time.

ARLINGTON, VA – The JEDEC Solid State Technology Association established JEP181, a neutral file, XML-based standard for electronics cooling simulation for the microelectronics industry.

KUALA LUMPUR – VS Industry Berhad reported fiscal third quarter revenue of RM 1.07 billion (US$260.9 million), up 112.6% year-over-year.

STAMFORD, CT – After a steep decline in 2020, global smartphone sales to end users grew 26% in the first quarter of 2021, according to Gartner. Overall, worldwide mobile phone sales to end users grew 22% year-over-year.

ATLANTA – CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY today announced free registration is open for its annual Service Excellence Awards (SEAs) for electronics manufacturing services (EMS) providers.

STAMFORD, CT – The worldwide semiconductor shortage will last through this year and not recover to normal levels until the second quarter of 2022, according to Gartner. Substrate capacity constraints could extend to the fourth quarter of next year.