Sens. Ruben Gallego and Jim Justice introduced bipartisan legislation that would create a 25% tax credit for purchasing American-made printed circuit boards to strengthen domestic PCB manufacturing and reduce reliance on China. SpaceX’s outlook positions Chinese space and satellite firms as emerging competitive threats while outlining major AI and orbital computing expansion plans.

Want to know what the next 10 years of Moore’s Law is going to look like? Imec revealed its updated roadmap this week at its annual technology forum, ITF, and it points to a challenging road ahead for chip manufacturers.

A startup is developing robotic systems that recover reusable RAM chips from e-waste before shredding, aiming to turn discarded electronics into a source of legacy semiconductor components.

Variscite launches VAR-SMARC-MX95 SoM for edge AI and industrial IoT.

Tigees releases free FPC/PCB engineering calculators for flexible and rigid-flex design.

As tools like Claude Code get better, more and more developers are happy to hand off coding tasks to them. The way software gets built has changed for good.

PCEA issued a call for abstracts for PCB East 2027, seeking technical presentations on PCB design, fabrication, assembly, test, packaging and additive manufacturing ahead of the April event in Worcester.

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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Bipartisan legislation aims to strengthen domestic PCB manufacturing with incentives for purchasing American-made circuit boards amid ongoing supply chain and China concerns.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is accelerating the company’s AI infrastructure expansion with major investments in data centers, custom AI chips, networking hardware and partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic.

SpaceX’s outlook excluded China from its long-term market plans while identifying Chinese space and satellite companies as a growing competitive threat amid expanding AI and orbital computing ambitions.

TrendForce forecasts North American cloud providers will drive a 122 percent increase in AI inference computing power this year through aggressive deployment of NVIDIA GB and VR rack-scale AI servers.

TrendForce said multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) pricing is nearing an upward rebound as AI server demand tightens high-end component supply and distributors increase stockpiling of consumer-grade MLCCs.

Chinese EV makers are acquiring underused global auto production lines as they expand overseas manufacturing capacity.

CircuitHub raised $28M to expand its automated PCB manufacturing platform and scale AI-driven electronics production facilities across the US and Europe.

The Printed Circuit Board Association of America backed new bipartisan legislation offering a 25 percent tax credit for American-made PCBs to help reshore domestic circuit board manufacturing.

VJ Electronix appointed The Murray Percival Co. as its manufacturers’ representative for Illinois and Southern Wisconsin.

Absolute EMS added a SASinno Americas PF-6T connector press-fit system.

Semi-Kinetics appointed Colin Forgy manufacturing manager at its Idaho facility.

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