The PCB Supply Chain Squeeze: C-Level Special with Confidee’s Raymond Goh and TLT’s Vytautas Ilgunas
PCB lead times are climbing, but the real story isn’t just ‘more demand.’ It’s where the supply chain actually breaks first: copper clad laminate, glass cloth, and resin. Philip Stoten is joined by Vitaltas Ilgunas from TLT PCB and Raymond Goh from Confidee to map the bottlenecks that are turning everyday procurement into a long-range […]
LibertyStream Advances Critical Mineral Recovery from Existing U.S. Oil and Gas Water-handling Infrastructure
Dallas, Texas headquartered, LibertyStream Infrastructure Partners Inc announced that it has commissioned its fully automated Gen 6 extraction system at Freedom Launchpad, the Company’s training and customer-sample production platform at its first deployment site. The Gen 6 system is operating as expected and is now supporting lithium extraction and lithium carbonate production at the site. […]
Global Semiconductor Sales Increase 9.2% Month-to-Month in May
Worldwide chip sales in May more than double compared to last year WASHINGTON—The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced global semiconductor sales were $120.6 billion during the month of May 2026, an increase of 9.2% compared to the April 2026 total of $110.5 billion and 104.1% more than the May 2025 total of $59.1 billion. […]