Bottom reached, ‘turning point’ in sight?
• issued new incentive plan which Inventec raised holdings in Kohjinsha tory in Dongguan City was investigated by
includes distribution of a maximum of (KJS) from 42.75% to 61.69%. National Labor Council regarding working
1,500,000 new series A shares of which Jabil Circuit: conditions at the factory.
50% would be issued during June 2010 • delayed construction of its new MC Assembly purchased and installed
and the remaining 50% during January headquarter building in St. Petersburg, YESTech F1-series automated inspection
2011. Florida, by two years. systems at their facilities in Palm Bay,
Elhurt established an EMS division and • will close Billerica, Massachusetts, Florida, and Zacatecas, Mexico.
finished construction on new Gdansk operations in May 2009. N.E.S Tech installed a Juki KE-2060 light
manufacturing facility. • cut 900 workers at its plant in Tiszauj- in Jerusalem.
EMS Radio Fire and Security Systems varos, Hungary, and laid-off 110 work- Nam Tai Electronics took its 74.88%
(Herne Bay, UK) purchased a MYDATA ers in Brest, France. owned Nam Tai Electronic Products private
MY100DX pick-and-place machine. • began moving manufacturing from for HK$332.2 million ($42.6 million).
Eolane renewed its take-over proposal for Chennai, India to China. NOTE:
Cofidur. • implemented Reel aMounts compo- • laid off 60 employees in Torsby, Swe-
ETI laid-off 62 of its 270 employees in nent counting and labeling system from den.
Denmark. Seratel in its plants in Tiszaújváros in • received volume production contract
FCT Assembly celebrated its five-year an- Hungary, Huangpu, in China and in from OTRUM for HD cards for hotel
niversary. both plants in Penang, Malaysia. TV systems.
Flextronics: Jurong Technologies: Optimum Design Associates purchased a
• cut 400 jobs in Zalaegerszeg, Hungary. • received statutory letter of demand for Takaya APT-9411 flying-probe test system
• laid-off 370 workers and did not extend repayment ofUS $22.4 million in loans from Texmac USA for its Pleasanton, Cali-
contracts of 330 temporary staff in Tab, from Rabo Bank. fornia, facility.
Hungary. • appointed Tam Chee Chong and Keoy PKC temporarily laid-off all its workers in
Foxconn/ Hon Hai Soo Earn, partners of Deloitte & Tou- Kempele (Oulu, Finland).
• building aUS $200-million cellphone che, as their judicial managers. Plexus:
plant in the Binh Xuyen II Industrial • • leased a 72,000 SF facility in Oradea,
Park in Vinh Phuc province, Vietnam. • Kimball Electronics: Romania.
• will establish a digital camera produc- • received 2009 Indiana Governor’s • became a supply chain partner for Ixia’s
tion center in Wuhan, China. Workplace Safety award. test, measurement and service verifica-
• selected open-plug ELIPS Suite to rap- • implemented 10% cut in annual base tion solutions.
idly develop mass market phones across pay for CEO Jim Thyen, 5% for all of- • cut 35 workers in the Fox Cities region.
multiple chipsets. ficers and a 3% reduction for all other • Kelso facility received an EMS contract
• investing up to US $60 million to build salaried personnel. from Games Warehouse.
a PC manufacturing facility in Turkey Kitron cut its workforce by 17% (250 Quality Contract Assembly created a new
together with HP. workers). brand to focus on LEDs.
• laid-off an additional 160 in Debrecen, LaBarge received aUS $1.6 million elec- Quanta:
Hungary. tronic equipment manufacturing contract • established a product design center to
GPV Industri sold its subsidiary GPV from Northrop Grumman for LAIRCM cut procurement costs by an estimated
Danprint to Mekoprint. missile defense program andUS $3.4 mil- US $30 million/yr based on shipments
HANZA appointed Elina Tuurinkoski lion in orders from BAE Systems. of 30 million notebook computers.
Manager of HANZA Services in Helsinki Lenovo opened a new computer factory in • outsourced its chassis fabrication to Ju
Finland. Apodaca, Mexico. Teng International Holdings.
HTC committed an additional investment Micro-Star International cut 10% of its Rapid Tooling added SMT Print Tooling
of US $8 million for equipment installa- workforce (1000 workers). services.
tion at its Shanghai subsidiary. Meitai Plastics & Electronics keyboard fac- Remploy Electronics hired and appointed
200902302 20090225
Total Semiconductor Shipments to an Area
World Semiconductor Sales
Monthly Shipments - Reporting Firms
Total
$B
$ Billions
15
350.0
Japan
N America
Europe
300.0
-24.1%
Asia Pac 256.4
+7.5%
253.4
250.0
10
SE
209.1
Asia
200.0
194.5
150.0
5
100.0
50.0
0
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95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
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