Foreign direct investment in Mexico forecast to increase 8% in 2024
Foreign direct investment in Mexico will increase 8% in 2024, according to a forecast by the Mexican Business Council for Foreign Trade, Investment and Technology (COMCE). Just over US $36 billion in FDI flowed into Mexico last year, a record high. SOURCE: Mexico News Daily COMCE, a Mexico City-based private sector organization, predicted on Thursday that […]
Customer satisfaction is already a culture: Heriberto with Koh Young
SOURCE: Hecho en Mexico Customer satisfaction in their processes is often quite complex to achieve and despite the increasing demands of OEMs towards EMS companies, there are some that achieve a satisfactory process. The case with Koh Young, which strategically places leaders at the head of its operations clearly yields a positive effect. In this […]
Biden-Harris Administration to Invest Up to $1.6 Billion to Establish and Accelerate Domestic Capacity Advanced Packaging
As part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Commerce issued a Notice of Intent (NOI) to open a competition for new research and development (R&D) activities that will establish and accelerate domestic capacity for semiconductor advanced packaging. The CHIPS for America program anticipates up to $1.6 billion in funding innovation across five […]
PC Recovery Continues as the Market Grows 3% in the Second Quarter, According to IDC
NEEDHAM, Mass.– The Traditional PC market delivered its second quarter of growth following seven consecutive quarters of decline. According to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker, worldwide shipments reached 64.9 million units in the second quarter of 2024 (2Q24), representing year-over-year growth of 3.0%. While the overall market […]
EMSNOW Mexico Executive Interview: Jaime Arreola Gutierrez, LATAM GM, PEMTRON
EMSNOW caught up with Jaime Arreola Gutierrez, who is LATAM GM at PEMTRON. Jaime is a computer science engineer with a Masters in Software Development. He started his career in 2006 as an applications engineer and since then has been focused on inspection equipment. He has worked as a professor at the University of Guadalajara […]