07 March 2008

IPC: The week that was (March 7, 2008)

A brief summary of the happenings in the Industrial PC world over the past week:

5-03-2008:-Kontron AG announces Quanta will acquire a 21% stake in Kontron Asia Inc. the production organization of the Kontron Group.

4-03-2008:- Gaming products are anticipated to increase DFI's revenues by 40% with their largest client being International Game Technology (IGT).

3-03-2008:- Shipments and bookings of IPC products for the were up in January. EMSNow reported: "Rigid PCB shipments are up 5.6 percent and bookings are up 13.7 percent in January 2008 from January 2007. The book-to-bill ratio for the North American rigid PCB industry in January 2008, however, slipped to 0.97."

29-02-2008:- Adlink aims to become the second largest IPC maker in Taiwan with anticipated revenues mostly coming from industrial automation product lines and embedded-computing controllers applied to medical care, transportation and general engineering.

29-02-2008:- Kinpo Electronics is moving into the IPC field. Kinpo is traditionally an OEM manufacturer of printing/imaging devices and consumer electronics. Their first shipments will be system IPC products.

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