SPOKANE VALLEY, WA — Key Tronic reported fiscal second revenue of $113.9 million, down from $147.8 million the same period of 2024.

WASHINGTON — The 90-day moving average global semiconductor sales hit $170.9 billion in the fourth quarter, 17.1% more the year ago period and 3% higher than the third quarter, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) announced today.

CRANSTON, RI – AIM Solder has acquired the assets of Canfield Technologies, a fellow producer of solder assembly materials.

GLENVIEW, IL -- Illinois Tool Works today reported fourth quarter revenue at its Test & Measurement and Electronics segment was $747 million, up from $731 million a year ago.

PEACHTREE CITY, GA – FEBRUARY 4, 2025 – Printed Circuit Engineering Association (PCEA) will host a new technical conference and exhibition in June in Detroit for printed circuit designers, design engineers, fabricators and assemblers.

BANGKOK -- Fabrinet today reported fiscal second quarter revenue of $833.6 million, up 17% from $712.7 million a year ago.

AUSTIN, TX -- Co-packaged optics (CPO) demand in the past two years, driven by the deployment of AI training and inferencing models, appears to be making the market a reality by 2026 or 2027 at the latest. 

LYNCHBURG, OH – Mirac Tabronics, an Ohio-based electronics manufacturer, has announced a $2.7 million investment to enhance its capabilities at two production facilities in the state.

AUSTIN, TX – Flex saw revenue of $6.56 billion for the third quarter of its fiscal year, up 2.1% from the same quarter last year.

TEMPE, AZ – Benchmark Electronics announced full-year revenue of $2.7 billion, down 3.7% from 2023's revenue.

So much of the focus of the past five years has been on artificial intelligence and its increasing role in society. Specific to electronics design and manufacturing, scores of companies are now involved in developing large language models and generative AI engines to power next-generation tools capable of synthesizing huge amounts of data and driving subsequent action.

According to Bloomberg, venture capitalists invested some $97 billion into artificial intelligence startups in the US alone in 2024. That’s about half of all the monies by US startups last year. Many of these technologies are unproven, however, and the companies’ founders have little or no track record of success bringing products to market or growing a profitable entity.

Does anyone feel like we are reliving the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s and early 2000s?

And it does make me wonder whether all the hype around AI is obfuscating other significant developments in the electronics space.

PEACHTREE CITY, GA – CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY today opened registration for its annual Service Excellence Awards (SEAs) for EMS providers and electronics assembly equipment, material, service, and software suppliers.