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2009: Very little smooth sailing until at least summer
2009 and 7.1% in 2010.—iSuppli factory. • was named one of the top 100 Informa-
• Worldwide notebook personal com- Aiptek is spinning off its ODM/OEM tion Enterprises in Dongguan, China
puter shipments to grow 11.3% to business on March 30, 2009. in 2008.
138 million units in 2009; netbook Alcatel pulled back outsourced parts from • cut 36 jobs in Salo, Finland. Produc-
PC shipment volume is expected to its EMS providers and transferred produc- tion at the unit will cease by March
increase 102% to 22.64 million units.— tion to Alcatel Shanghai Bell facility in 2009.
MIC China. • received a 2007-2008 “Certificate of
• PC gaming hardware in 2008 was just Asti will expand its Selbu, Norway, produc- Excellence Among Electronic Hard-
over US $20 billion, and will grow to tion facility by 700 m
2
in 2009. ware Export in Karnataka” award.
over US $34 billion by 2012.—Jon Ped- Benchmark Electronics co-founders Don Elektrobit plans will cut 170 staff globally
die Research Nigbor and Steve Barton retired. by the end of 1H’09.
• Global semiconductor sales to grow Bharat Electronics began construction of Flextronics:
2.2% y/y to US $261.2 billion in 2008 its new CEM unit in Kalamassery, Kochi • will close its Östersund, Sweden, unit
and decline 5.6% to US $246.7 billion (India). in March 2009 and cut 85 positions in
in 2009.—SIA Canon: Karlskrona, Sweden in spring 2009.
• Germany’s electronic components • installed assembly robots at a Thai • postponed construction of its LCD
market in 2008 is expected to drop by printer factory as part of a broader plant in St Petersburg, Russia.
4% to EUR 16.4 billion.—ZVEI plan to automate overseas factories. • closed its SBS facility in Herrenberg
• N American semiconductor equipment • Japanese plant discontinued inkjet and transferred work to Paderborn.
industry October 2008 book-to-bill printer assembly operations and moved • moved its Sidler Automotive opera-
ratio was 0.93; bookings were US $843 operations to Thailand. tions in Tübingen to a shared location
million and billings were US $908 mil- Catalyst Manufacturing Services achieved with Multek.
lion (both three-month average basis). ISO-13485:2003 medical certification at its Foxconn/ Hon Hai:
• Semiconductor venture capital invest- Tijuana, Mexico, manufacturing facility. • froze hiring and reduced overtime in
ment decreased 44% Q/Q and 57% CDR Manufacturing acquired ACT Elec- its China factories.
Y/Y to US $231.6 million in 3Q’08.— tronics’ Mississippi division. • invested US $91.7 million in its PC
SEMI World Fab Forecast Connor Solutions: assembly plants in Prague, Czech
• EMS market to grow 13.5% annually • is investing £2 million to replace all Republic.
from US $261 billion in 2007 to US SMT production lines and enhance its • subsidiary G-Tech Optoelectronics
$492 billion in 2012.—Lincoln Inter- existing through-hole technology. invested an additional US $8.74 mil-
national • will add 50 jobs over the next two lion (above previously stated US $12
• Maquiladoras in Juárez and maquila years. Million) to further expand capacity in
suppliers in El Paso cut jobs due to the Coroplast began building a €18 million Dongguan, China.
depressed automotive industry and the automotive cable plant in Tunisia. • purchased US $4 million worth of
U.S. economic downturn. CTS received ETC accelerator pedal mod- Advanced Microelectronic Products
ule manufacturing contracts from two new shares.
electronic manufacturing services & Chinese customers and a major Japanese • looking to establish an operations
related assembly activity automotive maker. center in Taiwan.
Advance SCT appointed Eng Buck Delphi began construction of a new EMS • Chairman Terry Guo stated that Fox-
Nguang COO. facility in Chennai, India. conn would probably reduce 10-15%
ACW Technology installed an LDS EI Microcircuits (Mankato, MI) received of its staff before the end of 2008 if the
(Environmental Stress Screening) vibra- IPC certification for lead-free assembly. global economy continues to worsen.
tion tester at its Tonypandy, South Wales, Elcoteq: • workforce will be affected by new green
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Global "Electronic Foodchain" Growth Outlook
Global Electronic Equipment Shipment Growth
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Taiwan/China
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Europe
Combined GDP
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