WILMINGTON, MA – The Boston SMTA Chapter will sponsor an all-day reliability and failure analysis seminar at Textron Defense Systems June 26.
OYSTER BAY, NY -- Unit shipments of gaming devices are falling but the longterm outlook is flat, say the latest forecasts.
CHENGDU, CHINA -- A Foxconn Technology worker committed suicide by jumping from his off-campus apartment Wednesday, the company said today.
SALO, FINLAND — Nokia plans to close operations in three countries and lay off nearly 19% of its workers by the end of next year as it tries to reduce its enormous red ink.
EL SEGUNDO, CA -- The global hard disk drive industry surged to record revenue in the first quarter, thanks to higher average selling prices that compensated for the wreckage and loss in shipments left by the October floods in Thailand, according to an IHS iSuppli report.
EL SEGUNDO, CA -- Obsolete parts have accounted for slightly more than half of all counterfeit-part reports during the last 10 years, highlighting the critical importance of obsolescence management for the electronic supply chain, according to information researcher IHS.
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IRVINE, CA -- Kia Motors is recalling more than 72,500 of its Rio vehicles due to a defective circuit board sensor mat.
BOSTON – Industry leading mid-market OEMs have already begun restructuring their supply chains, a multi-step process that will take several years, a leading electronics manufacturing analyst asserts.
BANNOCKBURN, IL — IPC president John Mitchell took the industry's case against Dodd-Frank to the US House of Representatives, outlining in a letter how existing and proposed regulations could hurt the electronics manufacturing industry.
BEIJING -- China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) is seeking comments on a revised draft of its RoHS rules, Measures for Administration of the Pollution Control of Electronic and Electrical Products.
ATLANTA -- Umut Tosun of Zestron will moderate a chat this week on cleaning applications within the SMT process, UP Media Group announced today.