HAUPPAUGE, NY –API Nanotronics Corp. has named Steve Pudles chief executive officer. He succeeds Phillip DeZwirek, who remains chairman.
 
Pudles is the former CEO and president of Nu Visions Manufacturing, where he led the company from $10 million in revenue to more than $100 million in a six-year period. He has 25 years’ electronics industry experience.
 
API supplies electronic components and conducts nanotechnology R&D for the defense and communications sectors.
 
Pudles has worked for a number of EMS firms and was recently elected secretary and treasurer of the IPC board.
 
 

ENDICOTT, NY – The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded Endicott Interconnect Technologies a $148.6 million contract modification to its current program to supply finished assemblies for a high-reliability, high-performance computing application. 
 
Under the deal, EI produces card frame assemblies, including HyperBGA organic semiconductor packaging, multichip module assemblies, PCBs, functionally tested assemblies, and supplies engineering services.
 

EL SEGUNDO, CA – iSuppli Corp. will present a Webinar on China’s future in electronics design on May 7 at 9 pm EST.
 
Kevin Wang, senior manager of China Services at iSuppli, will look at the status of China’s economy, the size of local demand creation for semiconductor suppliers, the national markets dominated by Chinese OEMs, and the kinds of products Chinese companies will focus on in the future?
 
For information, visit isuppli.com/events/default.asp?EventCode=WB.