Supply Chain Challenges Continue to Hamper Electronics Production
IPC releases economic outlook for January 2022 IPC’s January 2022 Economic Outlook report finds that supply chain challenges remain acute and have improved little from the previous month. Shortages continue to hamper production levels and lead-times remain long. Supply chain challenges will linger well into 2022, and in some instances, into 2023. Among other data, IPC’s economic […]
Shipments of LCD Monitors with Mini LED Backlighting Estimated at Approximately 51,000 units in 2021, Samsung Leads Market Share with 58%, Says TrendForce
High contrast and brightness Mini LED products have been developing aggressively, according to TrendForce’s investigations. Therefore, several LCD monitor brands have launched high-end LCD monitor products with Mini LED backlighting (Mini LED wafer size is defined as between 75~500µm). In 2021, the price of Mini LED-backlit LCD monitors fell between US$2,300 and US$5,000. For example, a 31.5-inch Mini LED […]
NCAB Group aquires META Leiterplatten in Germany
NCAB Group has today signed an agreement to acquire 100 per cent of the shares in META Leiterplatten GmbH & CO. KG based in Villingen-Schwenningen in southern Germany. The transaction is estimated to be closed in the beginning of January. META, founded in 2000, serves customers in Germany and expects to reach net sales of […]
2022 Will See a US$4.6 billion Global Spend on Industrial Digital Twins
In its new whitepaper, 70 Technology Trends That Will—and Will Not—Shape 2022, ABI Research analysts identify 35 trends that will shape the technology market and 35 others that, although attracting huge amounts of speculation and commentary, are less likely to move the needle over the next twelve months. “The fallout from COVID-19 prevention measures, the […]
Northvolt assembles first lithium-ion battery cell at Swedish gigafactory
Marking a new chapter in European industrial history, the cell is the first to have been fully designed, developed and assembled at a gigafactory by a homegrown European battery company. Skellefteå, Sweden. Last night, the commissioning of the Northvolt Ett gigafactory in northern Sweden led to the assembly of the first battery cell. Marking a […]