ENDICOTT, NY – Endicott Interconnect Technologies’ unsecured creditors could make a bid to buy the bankrupt printed circuit board fabricator at auction, a new report says.

BANNOCKBURN, IL – The world market for printed circuit boards reached nearly $60 billion in 2012, up 1.7% year-over-year, says IPC.

NEUNKIRCHEN, GERMANY -- Neways Electronics has been forced to cease all production activities at its German subsidiary following a major fire that gutted the facility. The contract electronics assembler says the blaze at Neways Electronics Kassel occurred Friday evening and resulted in no injuries.

HELSINKI -- Scanfil has raised its assessed revenue and profit outlook for this year, the contract manufacturer said.

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- In today’s computers, moving data to and from main memory consumes so much time and energy that microprocessors have their own small, high-speed memory banks, known as “caches,”  which store frequently used data. Traditionally, managing the caches has required  fairly simple algorithms that can be hard-wired into the chips.

ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL -- SigmaTron today swung to a July quarter profit on an 18% year-over-year jump in revenues. The electronics manufacturing services company reported revenues of $56.2 million for its first quarter of fiscal 2014, which ended July 31.

NEW YORK -- Plexus this morning raised its earnings guidance while reiterating fiscal fourth-quarter revenue forecast of $545 million to $575 million.The electronics contract assembler raised its EPS guidance by roughly $0.05 to $0.66 to $0.70 from prior guidance of $0.60 to $0.66.

SMYRNA, GA – CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY today announced the opening of its 2014 New Product Introduction Awards (NPI) for printed circuit board assembly.

WASHINGTON – The US Environmental Protection Agency has launched a web-based tool to improve access to chemical specific regulatory information developed by EPA and data submitted under the Toxic Substances Control Act. "ChemView" displays key health and safety data in an online format that allows comparison of chemicals by use and by health or environmental effects.

SAN JOSE — Worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings fell 27% from last year in the second quarter. Billings rose 3% sequentially to $7.55 billion, reported the SEMI trade group.

TAIPEI -- Hon Hai, the parent company of Foxconn, reported consolidated August sales rose 2.6% year-over-year to NT$280.4 billion ($9.44 billion). Sales were down from 6.6% July, however, the company said.

SAN JOSE, CA – A new study of trends in IC packaging says 0.5mm pitch will remain mainstream for years to come.