We search for industry news, so you don't need to.   Home  I  Site Map  I  News  I  Corporate News  I  Exclusives  I  Experts  I  Equipment  I  Marketplace  I  Calendar October 8, 2008 Compliant pin pressing Press pins or compliant pin connectors Fancort air or servo presses with custom tooling are designed to control the force of pressing compliant pins into PCBs without risk. Eliminate hand operations. Models from 1 to 20 tons. Click here to learn more… Fancort Industries   The Vital Part of SMT Process Every SMT Engineer should know Short presentation shows why metal squeegee design is so vital to SMT line performance. Click to watch this comprehensive list of technical tips and advice about SMT printing. It includes 15 photos, & 16 technical diagrams. 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China Economic News Service Lead-free Solder with a 9 Year Track Record SN100C - A billion boards and no failures Nihon Superior's SN100C Sn-Cu-Ni-Ge alloy is the only non-SAC alloy that has a track record of 9 years of successful use in commercial mass production with no service failures. Learn more… Nihon Superior Industry News   BlackBerry's Storm Aims to Blow the iPhone Away You just can't keep a secret in the tech industry these days. Early pictures of T-Mobile's Google phone leaked onto the Web the week before ... Time What AMD's fab spinoff means for Intel, industry In spinning off its semiconductor plants, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is shedding the traditional trappings of a microprocessor heavyweight ... Market Watch Death Knell for iPhone 3G Battery The EU is apparently readying a new set of directives for companies that sell their products in Europe. One of the clauses in these new ... Techtree Dramatic shifts in consumer electronics value chain The consumer electronics value chain is poised to undergo major changes during the next 10 years, generating new opportunities and challenges ... iSuppli Corporation Analysts cut 2009 cell phone growth estimates The global cell phone market should grow at much slower-than-expected rates next year as consumers put off buying new devices due to ... Reuters Worldwide PC shipments hit 70 million units in Q2 2008 Worldwide PC sales reached 70.2 million units in Q2 2008, 14.5 percent higher than in the same period last year, says a report from iSuppli. ... Global Sources Proposed EU Regulations Could Lead to Replaceable iPhone Battery If approved new regulations would mean batteries on iPod and iPhone would have to be readily replaceable. Among Smartphones, the best selling ... DailyTech Rumors Surface Again Claiming NVIDIA will Leave Chipset Business Rumors also say NVIDIA will report another quarterly loss. NVIDIA is certainly on the skids financially thanks to several different ... DailyTech Study Shows Flip Chip and WLP Growth The growth of flip chip and wafer-level packaging (WLP) is a bright spot in the electronics industry, according to TechSearch International's ... SMT Magazine A.M.D. to Split Into Two Operations In a dramatic effort to maintain its position as the only real rival to Intel, Advanced Micro Devices plans to announce Tuesday that it will ... International Herald Tribune Market free fall: How Apple fared Apple was the outlier Monday. On a day in which the Dow lost nearly 370 points (having plunged 800 points in midday trading), Apple’s shares ... Fortune Quickly program SMT, AOI & ATE from CAD, Gerber or BOM Create fast process assembly sheets, 1st Article inspection, costing reports, rework, debug, etc. Cost effective manufacturing software & product tracking MES from Unisoft. 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GOEPEL electronic Pickering Introduces New PXI Resistive Strain Gauge Simulator Pickering Interfaces is expanding its range of sensor simulators in PXI with the introduction of the 40-265 Strain Gauge Simulator. Simulating ... Pickering Interfaces ACD Selects Optel for Complete Process Traceability Optimal Electronics Corporation announces that Automated Circuit Design (ACD) has selected Optel for its lean manufacturing process .... Optimal Electronics Corporation Industry to Benefit from R&D Tax Credit Extension IPC is celebrating; the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act 2008 was signed into law late Friday night. Most notably, the act extends to ... IPC Summit Introduces Industry's First Battery Charger to Enable True Universal USB Charging Summit Microelectronics has introduced its third-generation programmable battery charger integrated circuit for single-cell Li-Ion and ... 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