Hertfordshire UK contract manufacturer Alan Anderson Manufacturing has signed a deal with Continental Device India (CDIL) to supply discrete semiconductors including silicon carbide components. “We are taking a different approach to the supply of PCB assemblies,” said AA Manufacturing sales director Michael Knight. “We ensure supply by forging partnerships with our suppliers. When we get a BOM from a customer, ...
West Midlands-based Kasdon Electronics is to supply 180,000 PCB assembles for the giant SKA-Low radio telescope, to be built in Australia. The two year contact is with Italian receiver maker Sirio Antenne. “Sirio Antenne is a developer of high-quality antennas, and they were picked to design and manufacture the antennas used in the SKA-Low observation product,” according to Kasdon. “After ...
Offshore Electronics has added a Yamaha Z:Lex YSM20R modular pick and place machine to its Guernsey manufacturing. “Fastest in its class at 95,000 component placements per hour, the YSM20R will allow the company to ship a greater number of boards to its OEMs each day,” according to the company. “Over the course of a month, this investment will effectively double ...
Light Science Technologies Holdings is to float on the London Stock Exchange to increase the manufacturing capacity of its contract electronics manufacturing division, and strengthen its position in the agricultural lighting. Trading on AIM under ‘LST’, the group raised £5m in October. “We are delighted to be trading on the London Stock Exchange through our AIM IPO, and are excited ...
AWS Electronics has added a high voltage production capability to its plant in Newcastle Under Lyme. The electronics manufacturing services company, which is investing £30k in the facility, now has a manufacturing space purely for work that requires up to 50kV; high currents of up to 180A can also be accommodated. The most likely customers for the high voltage facility are operating in the ...
STMicroelectronics and the multi-project wafer organisation CMP (Circuits Multi Projets) have announced that the CMOS 28nm process from STMicroelectronics is now available for prototyping to universities, research labs and companies through the silicon brokerage services provided by CMP.
At the start of 2009, we take a look back to consider the most-read stories of 2008 - the news articles that proved the most interesting to your fellow readers. Some things do not change, with NXP dominating 2008, like it is 2009...
SEMI Sales Fall From $54bn to $35bn in Two years. China has failed to emerge as a chip manufacturing nation, to the surprise of industry analysts,...
Freescale Semiconductor is not going to become an analogue company, but it's going to become more of an analogue company. That was the message of...
Although Carlo Bozotti, CEO of STMicroelectronics, has cut his forecast for semiconductor industry growth this year to between four and five per cent, Malcolm Penn, CEO of Future Horizons reckons: "We can't make it much less than 7 per cent growth this year, and the balance of probability is in the 10 per cent region."
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