Off-shore manufacturing remains a key strategy for electronics companies seeking cost efficiency, scalability, and access to global supply chains. Nations like China, Vietnam, and India host expansive semiconductor and electronics assembly operations, supporting OEMs and CEMs across industries. While off-shoring has driven mass production, recent shifts toward reshoring and supply chain resilience are reshaping strategies. For product developers, understanding off-shore dynamics is vital to optimizing production timelines, component sourcing, and regulatory compliance, especially amid global chip shortages and geopolitical change.
How do you stop migrating birds from being attracted to oil rigs at night? The reasons that they should not land are two-fold: the mess that they make adds to maintenance costs, and birds that land are more likely to die before competing their journey. “Offshore platforms, such as oil and gas rigs, wind turbines, and their substations, offer a ...
Following calm weather after the summer trade-winds, X1 Wind’s floating wind turbine has been installed at the ‘Plocan’ test site off the Canary Islands. This is a third-scale model, fitted with a Vestas V29 turbine (225kW), intended to demonstrate the floating platform, dubbed X30. X30 has been developed to be towed into place by what X1 calls ‘local vessels’ and ...
At the start of 2009, we take a look back to consider the most-read stories of 2008 - the news articles that proved the most interesting to your fellow readers. Some things do not change, with NXP dominating 2008, like it is 2009...
SEMI Sales Fall From $54bn to $35bn in Two years. China has failed to emerge as a chip manufacturing nation, to the surprise of industry analysts,...
Freescale Semiconductor is not going to become an analogue company, but it's going to become more of an analogue company. That was the message of...
Although Carlo Bozotti, CEO of STMicroelectronics, has cut his forecast for semiconductor industry growth this year to between four and five per cent, Malcolm Penn, CEO of Future Horizons reckons: "We can't make it much less than 7 per cent growth this year, and the balance of probability is in the 10 per cent region."
E2v has chosen Jazz Semiconductor’s 0.18µm SiGe BiCMOS process for the manufacture of its next generation high resolution programmable data converter products.
Variability in device characteristics is an emerging issue for semiconductor manufacturers and the moment is fast approaching when its effects will be felt throughout the industry
Freescale Semiconductor has formally announced the appointment of estate agents Colliers ATREG to assist with the sale of its Scottish wafer manufacturing facilities, as first reported by Electronics Weekly on Monday
Semefab is building its nanotechnology manufacturing capability with the purchase of $1m worth of production equipment from local Scottish supplier Semi Scenic
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