KISTA, SWEDEN – Note reported second quarter sales increased 14% year-over-year to SEK 500 million (US$54.8 million).
SAINT-HERBLAIN, FRANCE – Lacroix Group has acquired eSoftThings, consolidating its R&D center and strengthening its positioning around industrial IoT and artificial intelligence, the firm says. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
BILLINGSTAD, NORWAY – Kitron reported second quarter revenue of NOK 1.04 billion (US$110.6 million), an increase of 21% year-over-year. Growth adjusted for currency effects was 11%.
CLINTON, NY – Indium’s Ning-Cheng Lee, Ph.D., VP of Technology, and John H. Lau, Ph.D., CTO, Unimicron, coauthored Assembly and Reliability of Lead-Free Solder Joints.
TAIPEI – Foxconn Electronics reported consolidated revenues of NT$360.5 billion (US$12.3 billion) for June, down 9% year-over-year and 6.8% sequentially.
LYON, FRANCE – “Despite the Covid-19 outbreak, which negatively impacted the smartphone and automotive industries but spurred demand for server and PC memory for stay-at-home activities, 2020 is expected to be a year of recovery,” said Simone Bertolazzi, Ph.D., technology and market analyst, Semiconductor, Memory & Computing at Yole Développement. “At Yole, we see the beginning of a new era of prosperity for the memory industry.”