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The European Commission have unveiled the “European Chips Act” to support the microelectronics ecosystem in the EU. ESIA have welcomed this piece of legislation as a decisive instrument to ensuring the supply of critical components and allowing the broader European industry to thrive.

Showa Denko has demonstrated that it is possible to dramatically speed up the time required to search for optimal formulations of semiconductor materials, from several decades to several tens of seconds, using quantum computing technology.

A new report launched today by the World Economic Forum reveals that the Semiconductors, Electronics and Pharmaceuticals sectors are leading the way in the digital transformation of manufacturing. The Manufacturing Transformation Insights Report 2022 offers new insights and findings emerging from the new Global Smart Industry Readiness Index (SIRI) initiative, which aims to build the world’s largest datasets and benchmarks on the state of m...

Olon announces a milestone of investments in its high containment manufacturing global platform.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has concluded a momorandum of understanding (MOU) with Indonesia's Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) to conduct joint research on clean energy solutions that will enable decarbonisation in Indonesia.

The electronics manufacturing industry has welcomed the release of the European Commission’s European Chips Act with its strong support for advanced packaging and calling for its swift implementation as part of a broader and equally important strategy to rebuild the European electronics manufacturing ecosystem.

Synopsys has announced that it has joined Intel Foundry Services (IFS) Accelerator EDA and IP Alliance. The alliance gives Synopsys early access to Intel's process roadmap, process design kits and more, providing mutual customers with EDA and IP solutions that are optimised for high reliability, security, power, performance and area for Intel processes and packaging technologies. 

Europlacer is exhibiting at the Southern Manufacturing & Electronics exhibition where it will show the hugely popular iineo+ placement machine alongside the EP710AVI stencil printer.

SEMI has commended the passage of the America COMPETES Act of 2022 by the United States House of Representatives.

Horizon Sales has announced that it was named manufacturers’ representative group of the year by PARMI during the recent IPC APEX EXPO in San Diego, CA. The company had the top sales in 2021 for PARMI’s 3D inspection systems for the electronics assembly industry.