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HAVERHILL, MA – Engineering firm DKN Research and NY Industries, a circuit board manufacturer, launched a prototype and engineering service for printable electronics.

The firms established a prototype service for trials with new printable electronics products, using printing equipment and other circuit manufacturing facilities, including roll-to-roll systems with broad ranges of thick-film circuit technologies.

Ohtsu, Japan-based NY Industries is currently capable with a thick-film printing process for broad ranges of substrate materials for both rigid and flexible circuits; fine line traces down to 30 µm line and space; high conductivity thin thick-film traces down to 3 µm; single-side circuits, double-side circuits and multilayer up to eight layers; printed via holes with mechanically drilled holes and printed holes; solderable thick-film circuits; embedded resistors from 100 ohms to 10 megaohms; embedded capacitances up to 10,000 picofarads; embedded inductances with various constructions, and embedded EL devices with inorganic materials.

REDMOND, WA – Data I/O Corp.’s first-quarter revenues in 2009 were $4.4 million, down 29% year-over-year.

SPOKANE VALLEY, WA -- Key Tronic Corp. promoted Craig Gates to president and chief executive, effective immediately, replacing Jack W. Oehlke, who resigned for health reasons.

SANTA CLARA, CA – Intel chairman Craig Barrett will retire from active management in May at the company’s annual stockholders' meeting, the company said today.

BANNOCKBURN, IL – IPC announced winners of the first IPC Academic Poster Competition at Apex.

BOSTON – Electronics New England is not an oxymoron.

That much was made clear this week as easily more than 1,000 attendees visited the two-day trade show here at the vast Boston Convention Center. Despite several high-profile plant closings so far this year – Plexus in Ayer, MA, and Jabil in Billerica, MA among them – many of the smaller EMS shops remain on par with last year, even if the outlook is as cloudy as ever.