Cadence Design is betting on growth from automakers and other chip users strapped by global supply shortages who face mounting competition from rivals such as Tesla and Apple that design their own chips.

A former Google scientist says the computers that run our lives exploit us – and he has a way to stop them.

Young people with C-suite aspirations will do well to consider a career in engineering, says the CEO of Switch Mobility and former CEO of Aston Martin.

Now you can rent a robot worker for less than paying a human.

Susy Webb will lead a three-hour webinar on Best DfM Practices for Board Engineers on Feb. 22.

What’s inside the Apple AirTag tracking device? A teardown shows.

Printed circuit design engineers can benefit from the PCE-EDU Printed Circuit Engineering Professional curriculum, a new weeklong program on printed circuit engineering layout based on current technology trends, taking place in January, February and March.

PCB West 2022 seeks abstracts for this year’s technical conference, taking place in October in the Silicon Valley.

DytSpectrumOwl released a desktop PCB thermal analyzer.

CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY reopened registration for its annual Service Excellence Awards (SEAs) for EMS providers and electronics assembly equipment, material, service, and software suppliers.

Ericsson has filed another set of patent infringement lawsuits against Apple in the latest salvo between the two companies over royalty payment for use of 5G wireless patents in iPhones.

Plexus warned that it will miss fiscal first-quarter profit and revenue guidance provided in October because of "unanticipated" supply chain challenges that accelerated in the final weeks of the quarter.

Sales of PCB and MCM CAD software increased 14.5% year-over-year in the third quarter to $298.3 million, the ESD Alliance announced.

Companies are bracing for another round of potentially debilitating supply chain disruptions as China, home to about a third of global manufacturing, imposes sweeping lockdowns in an attempt to keep the Omicron variant at bay.

Compal Electronics is halting production at its factory in Northern Taiwan for a week after several employees tested positive for Covid-19, as the latest wave of the omicron variant spreads in Taiwan.

Former iPhone workers are being offered large sign-on bonuses for the second time in seven months as Foxconn strives to keep pace with demand for the iPhone 13.

Cicor Group announced discussions are underway with the owners of SMT Elektronik with the target of acquiring the German company's electronic manufacturing services activities.

APCT qualified to IPC-1791, Trusted Electronics Fabricator Requirements Qualified Manufacturers Listing (QML) at its PCB manufacturing facilities in Anaheim and Orange County, CA.

Travis Kelly, president and chief executive of Isola, the materials developer, and chairman of the PCBAA, joins PCB Chat host Mike Buetow to discuss the new consortium's outlook and strategy.

Calumet Electronics recertified to IPC-1791 Qualified Manufacturers Listing (QML).

Celestica announced its AbelConn Electronics facility in Maple Grove, MN, has earned ISO 13485:2016 certification for medical device production.

MixComm has selected Sanmina Advanced Microsystems Technologies as a lead partner to build its 5G wireless infrastructure solutions.

BTU announced Chris Heesch as regional sales manager for the western US, Mexico and Central America.

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