GM engineers break electronics so we don't have to.

While manufacturing companies see the value in implementing artificial intelligence, many are struggling to deliver clear results and are reevaluating their strategy, according to a new report commissioned by Plutoshift.

iNEMI released three additional chapters from its 2019 Roadmap: Flexible Hybrid Electronics, Organic PCB and Portable and Wireless.

Downstream Technologies is hosting a pair of webinars on how to ease the building of a design.

George Milad explains nickel corrosion, how it occurs and new methods of mitigation, and how the IPC-4552 ENIG specification is being revised to reflect new corrosion analysis requirements, on the latest edition of PCB Chat.

Rohde & Schwarz upgrades R&S RTO-/RTP-K133 oscilloscopes.

Vishay offers TMBS rectifiers with 2A, 3A devices.

UP Media Group seeks abstracts for PCB West, to be held Sept. 8-11. The four-day technical conference and one-day exhibition will be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

Susy Webb on Mar. 26–27 will lead Design Essentials for PCB Engineers, a two-day workshop covering parts placement, routing, fine-pitch BGAs, fanout, controlling impedance and high-frequency energy, and stack-up and power issues, in Austin, TX.

Phil Zarrow will present a two-day SMT Assembly Boot Camp, a practical workshop on processes and materials used in through-hole and SMT, in Austin, TX, on Mar. 24–25.

Incap signed an agreement to acquire 100% ownership of UK-based AWS Electronics Group.

Intel said cloud computing demand fired up the chipmaker’s data center business and allayed concerns of market share loss to rival AMD.

Apex Circuit, a subsidiary of Taiding, the largest PCB manufacturer in Thailand, has approved a 670 million baht plant in Sinsakhon Industrial Park.

Singapore's electronics factory output edged higher from a year ago in December, reinforcing the view the technology sector could turn around in coming months.

The Japan Business Federation, commonly known as Keidanren, has stated in its guidelines for 2020 wage bargaining that Japan's conventional framework for labor-management wage negotiations is out of touch with reality.

InspectAR Augmented Interfaces, whose technology helps simplify the production of printed circuit boards, has received an $850,000 investment from Royal Circuits and Advanced Assembly.

PCB fabricator Bomin Electronics reported 2019 net profit will increase RMB 58 million to 87 million, an increase of 47% to 70% year-over-year.

BTU named Brandon Hannaman regional sales manager.

Virtex named Shawn Brady business development manager.

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