Indium Corporation Expert to Co-Chair Special e-Mobility Session at IPC APEX Expo

Indium Corporation’s Global Head of e-Mobility and Infrastructure, Brian O’Leary, will co-chair a special panel discussion on e-Mobility on Thursday, January 26 from 10 a.m.–1 p.m. local time at IPC APEX Expo in San Diego, Calif., US. Climate change, government policy, and consumers are rapidly driving the automotive industry towards an electrified future. The printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) manufacturing […]

GF and Intel semiconductor talent forgo are gifts to competitors, says DigiTimes

SOURCE: DigiTimes Asia Intel is offering voluntary unpaid leave for thousands of employees while GlobalFoundries (GF) is laying off 6% of its global workforce to reduce short-term costs amid an industry down cycle. They are probably doing competitors such as TSMC, Samsung, UMC, and Foxconn a favor. Financial Times reported that Intel offers 3 months of […]

US Commerce Department’s Initial Anti-Circumvention Ruling Against Four Chinese Solar Companies Will Have No Notable Effect in Short Term, Says TrendForce

 On December 2, the US Commerce Department released its preliminary findings on four Chinese solar companies that are charged with circumventing US tariffs by setting up product assembly sites in Southeast Asia. The companies targeted by the investigation are BYD (Cambodia), Canadian Solar (Thailand), Trina Solar (Thailand), and Vina (a Vietnamese subsidiary of LONGi). The […]

EMSNOW Up Close – Dale Ford, ECIA Chief Analyst

Eric gets some one-on-one time with ECIA’s excellent data analyst, Dale Ford. They talk about ECIA’s Electronic Component Sales Trend (ECST) survey, which takes the pulse of the component channel every month and is a good leading indicator of the industry. Dale gives the latest update from his report on industry sentiment about a wide […]