PEACHTREE CITY, GA – The exhibition floor is sold out for PCB West, the largest conference and exhibition for printed circuit board design, fabrication and assembly in the Silicon Valley, the Printed Circuit Engineering Association said today. It is the ninth time in 10 years all booths have been sold for the popular exhibition, PCEA added.

NEEDHAM, MA – The road to recovery for personal computers has been challenging coming off explosive years in 2020 and 2021, but signs of growth are finally returning. According to the International Data Corporation Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker, PC shipments are forecast to grow 3.7% year over year in 2024 reaching 261.4 million shipments.

NEW YORK – EW Healthcare Partners has announced a platform investment in Enercon Technologies to become a majority shareholder in the business.

SAINT-HERBLAIN, FRANCE – Lacroix announced revenue of €193 million ($208 million) for the second quarter, an increase of 11.4% from the second quarter of 2022.

TAOYUAN CITY, TAIWAN – Taiwan Kong King Co. reported revenue for the first six months of 2023 was NT1.05 billion ($32.9 million).

SHENZHEN – Chinese automaker BYD's electronics unit has agreed to purchase Jabil's mobile electronics manufacturing business in China for 15.8 billion yuan ($2.2 billion).

KUALA LUMPUR – SKP Resources saw first-quarter revenues decline 22.3% to RM431.6 million ($93 million) from RM555.2 million ($119.7 million) in the same quarter of 2022.

KARNATAKA, INDIA – Kaynes Technology has signed an agreement with the Indian state of Karnataka in which the state government will invest Rs 3,750 crore ($435.9 million) for two Kaynes subsidiaries to set up a PCB manufacturing plant and a semiconductor assembly and testing (OSAT) facility.

HAWTHORNE, CA – OSI Systems' Optoelectronics and Manufacturing division reported revenue of $387.4 million for its 2023 fiscal year, an increase of 5.6% from fiscal year 2022.

TAIPEI – Taiwan-based server ODMs, including Quanta, Foxconn, Wistron (including Wiwynn), and Inventec, have set up production bases in countries like Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia, TrendForce reports, and it’s projected that by 2023, the production capacity from these regions will account for 23%, and by 2026, it will approach 50%.

TAIPEI – Foxconn founder Terry Gou said Taiwan's businesses are hoping for continued peace between the US and China amid increased tensions between the two nations.

PASADENA, CA – Procurement professionals are now enjoying a degree of negotiation power that they have not experienced in years due to an improved environment for the buy-side of the electronics supply chain marked by falling lead times, stubborn inventory, uneven demand, and mostly declining pricing, according to new Commodity IQ data from Supplyframe.