ATLANTA – Sales sentiment for electronics components seems to be mired in the doldrums with October sentiment as measured by the Electronics Components Sales Trend survey (ECST) struggling to remain essentially neutral at 97.1 compared to September.

JASPER, IN -- Kimball Electronics announced fiscal first quarter sales of $374.3 million, down from $438.1 million a year ago for the period ended Sept. 30.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Nortech Systems reported third quarter net sales of $31.4 million, down 5.9% from a year ago.

WASHINGTON — Global semiconductor sales rose 23.3% year-over-year to $166 billion in the third quarter, the Semiconductor Industry Association said today.

BANGKOK -- Fabrinet reported record fiscal first quarter revenue of $804 million, up 17% from a year ago and was above company guidance.

SAN JOSE -- Sanmina reported fiscal fourth quarter revenue of $2.02 billion, down 2% year-over-year and up 9.6% sequentially.

NEEDHAM, MA – Worldwide tablet shipments grew 20.4% in the third quarter, totaling 39.6 million units, according to preliminary data from IDC.

MINNEAPLOIS – SMTA today announced Waad Tarman of Auburn University as recipient of the 2024 JoAnn Stromberg Student Leader Scholarship.

SAN JOSE -- Industry veteran Vern Solberg has released a new book on designing for SMT and UHDI boards.

Dumb data won’t die. And the blame rests squarely on users who resist upgrading to formats that are designed with today’s boards and manufacturing methods in mind.

That’s the message from the PCEA Portland (OR) Chapter at its meeting in late October. The sentiment was shared across a spectrum of users, from designers to fabricators to assemblers, including the host, Axiom Electronics.

We know the issues: Too often, fabricators and assemblers receive conflicting duplicate and erroneous design data files. More often than not the culprit is Gerber-based data packages, which almost always require modification prior to fabrication or assembly.

So while persistent errors from design to manufacturing are often due to manual entry miscues or otherwise obvious omissions such as a missing solder mask layer or discrepancies within the netlist, the industry by and large continues to put up with the pain instead of migrating to a new format.

SAINT-CLOUD, FRANCE – Asteelflash opened a $19 million production facility near Wrocław, Poland, enhancing its box-build and high-level assembly capabilities in the automotive and industrial sectors.

TEMPE, AZ – Benchmark Electronic's third quarter revenue of $658 million represented a decline of 8.6% from the same quarter in 2023.