East West Manufacturing has acquired EMS provider Vexos. PCD&F is inviting PCB designers, design engineers and layout specialists to participate in its annual salary survey, with responses helping shape one of the industry's most comprehensive benchmarks on compensation and career trends.

Waymo will begin rolling out its driverless vehicles in four new cities in the coming weeks, furthering its US expansion. The company plans to begin service in London, its first international market, later this year, having driven more than 20 million overall autonomous rides, with its sights set on hitting 1 million weekly trips by the end of the year.

PDC&F has opened its 2026 PCB Designer Salary Survey, inviting PCB designers, design engineers and layout specialists to share information on salaries, job responsibilities, experience, education and more. Responses will be accepted through July 31.

Amphenol Trackwise Designs has manufactured a 100-meter multilayer flexible printed circuit, surpassing its previous 72-meter achievement.

Dr. Nishith Kumar Reddy Gorla discusses system-level reliability testing on the latest Reliability Matters podcast.

Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has renamed its Electrical Engineering area to Electrical and Computer Engineering, reflecting the field's expanded focus on AI-enabled hardware.

Göpel Electronic releases System Cascon 4.11.

PCEA announced a dedicated electronics assembly program for PCB West 2026, featuring 10 technical sessions on solder paste, placement, reflow, stencil design and cleaning.

Registration is open for PCB West 2026, which will feature more than 120 hours of PCB design and assembly training this September in Santa Clara.

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East West Manufacturing has acquired Vexos, expanding its engineering, manufacturing and supply chain capabilities across the Americas and Asia.

Even Realities, a Shenzhen-based startup founded by former Apple executive Will Wang, has raised $150M. Wang said Shenzhen's engineering talent gives hardware startups a better chance than Silicon Valley of building the "next Apple.”

Incap Germany has secured more than $13M in defense orders from KNDS for the Leopard tank program.

Schmid Group has secured a repeat order worth more than $43M for HDI-ML and mSAP production equipment.

Optimum named Altus Group distributor of its Smart Klaus digital worker assistance system in the UK and Ireland.

Technosert installed an Asys Divisio 5100 Gen 5 depaneling system.

Dick Carpenter, a former PCB and packaging engineer with IBM and a significant contributor to the development of microvia technology, passed away on July 3.

Suntech Circuits named Valerian Nechiforov strategic business manager.

TTM Technologies named Andrew Levine hardware engineer.

Heller Industries named Mike DePauw senior key account manager.

ECIA named Stephannie Bronson vice president of industry practices to lead the Global Industry Practices Committee.

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