North American electronics manufacturing services (EMS) companies continued to post steady demand in May, with the Global Electronics Association reporting a book-to-bill ratio of 1.36. EMS shipments ...

North American PCB demand remained strong in May, with the Global Electronics Association reporting a book-to-bill ratio of 1.60 as AI-related investment continued to drive orders. PCB shipments rose ...

Millennium Circuits Limited (MCL) today announced a planned leadership transition within its Quality organization as Director of Quality John Waite retires after a distinguished career spanning more ...

From test coupons and burn-in chambers to ICT and flying probes, effective factory testing is essential for delivering reliable products and maintaining process control. Factory testing comes in ...

One of the most common assumptions PCB designers make when investigating ultra HDI (UHDI) technology is that every layer must be built with ultra-fine geometries using semi-additive processing (SAP) ...

Supply chain disruptions may be inevitable, but the ability to design around them doesn’t have to be an afterthought. If it feels like supply chains are back in the headlines again, that’s because ...

Thousands of attendees gathered at ECTC to explore the latest advances in advanced packaging, AI-driven design, heterogeneous integration and thermal management. More than 2,700 attendees conversed ...

Knowing which PCB specification changes require new tooling and which do not can help designers and buyers reduce nonrecurring engineering costs while avoiding unnecessary delays. NRE (nonrecurring ...

Despite rapid advances in artificial intelligence, humanoid robots still face major hurdles in mobility, communication and energy efficiency. With all the attention, headlines, discussion, ...

Most EMS companies do not have actual design services in-house and at best only offer design for supply chain (DFSC), design for manufacturing (DfM), and design for test (DfT, which is just a point-to ...

That’s how long I’ve sat in this chair as an editor for this publication. Long enough that a reader or two out there was born right about the time I took the job, in January 2000, first as editor in ...

High-performance computing has moved out of its niche to become a mainstream requirement and continues to rely on human skills to deliver its optimum potential. Historically, supercomputing has been a ...