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SAN JOSE – The MicroElectronics Packaging and Test Engineering Council has finalized the program for its first-quarter symposium, Semiconductor Packaging – Impacting the Age of Consumer Electronics.

The event will be held Feb. 19 in San Jose.

Ronald Steger, partner-in-charge of global semiconductor practice, KPMG, will keynote the symposium, discussing the consumer electronics boom – how semiconductor and consumer electronics companies can improve cost, time-to-market and product quality.

Other presentation topics include time-to-market and consumer semiconductor packaging; signal integrity: getting it right the first time; modeling package thermal behavior in advanced process technologies; time-to-market is everything; cost-of-ownership challenges for consumer products; a fabless semiconductor's point of view: IC package technology development and the total cost of ownership; an OSAT provider's point of view for consumer applications: IC package development and total cost of ownership challenges; solutions for consumer product miniaturization; STATSChipPAC – evolution of package on package; selecting the right packaging technology: finding the optimum balance between device and system level considerations in consumer applications; trends in low profile packaging; advancing technologies for consumer electronics; new tornado: adoption of MEMS processes by IC industry; microbatteries for integrated autonomous microdevices; the future of MEMS chem-bio sensors, and mobile projection displays based on biaxial scanning MEMS mirrors.

SAN JOSE -- Flextronics reported fourth-quarter net sales fell 28% to $5.6 billion and adjusted net income dropped 90% to $21.7 million.

ST. LOUIS -- Top 35 EMS company LaBarge Inc. reported third-quarter net sales of $72.2 million, down 4% year-over-year. Not including the $13.6 million contributed by the Pensar acquisition, sales were down 21%.

RICHARDSON, TX – Elcoteq will lay off 96 workers including all its employees in engineering services here, according to reports.

The layoffs will take place between late March 24 and early April 7.

TAIPEI -- Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn) reported first-quarter net sales fell 7.9% year-over-year to NT$277.9 billion ($8.2 billion).

NORTH BILLERICA, MA -- BTU International reported first-quarter net sales fell 41% from last year to $9.8 million while its net loss was $4.6 million, versus net income of $100,000 last year.