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Updated: 03/11/2010

Asia trend: 2010 not looking good for Japanese printed circuit boards

Things look rosy for Korea and Taiwan. Unfortunately, the Japanese market may not be in full bloom for a while. The Japanese electronics industry does not have any promising ...

False rays of hope for semiconductors?

The reduced floor size reserved by the show was enough to accommodate the crowd that filled the aisles and open areas. This created the illusion the show seemed just as busy as previous years due to the downsized area and ...

25% of cars with cell phone remote control embedded telematics by 2016

Worldwide shipments of cars equipped with systems capable of remote control via a cell phone or other device are set to rise to 20.7 million units in 2016, up from 85,000 in ...

Asia market trends in printed circuit boards

Unfortunately, the flowers are not in full bloom for Japanese printed circuit board manufacturers. They continue to dig themselves out of a hole while their Asian counterparts ...

Semiconductor recovery: Strong year-end performance expected

Although global semiconductor revenue is set to decline in 2009 for the second consecutive year, quarterly year-over-year growth is expected to finally return to the market in ...

China semiconductors market at $80 billion in 2010

China semiconductor market to grow by 17.8%. Automotive electronics only major application market to generate an increase in semiconductor demand in 2009. Wireless communications semiconductor market to decline to ...

Organic electronics and today's electronic devices

Most of the organic molecules are electrically inert, and this is the reason why insulated materials such as the base substrates in printed circuit boards are made of plastic resins. However, some of ...

Trend report: Regional manufacturing productivity, hourly compensation, labor costs

Greatest decline in total hours worked occurred in U.S. manufacturing. Total manufacturing labor compensation declined in Japan, Canada, United Kingdom. U.S. manufacturing sector improved unit labor cost competitiveness against all economies compared except Korea and the United Kingdom.

Jobs in Japan: College grads facing worst job market in years

In early 2002, small glimmers of hope appeared in the Japanese job market and, as Japan’s economy improved a bit…things began to look brighter, but as ...

Cautiously optimistic: Taiwan printed circuit board business trends

Unfortunately, market indexes for August reveal more than a 20% decline in volume compared to the same month last year. Only larger, industry-leading manufacturers are seeing ...

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