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$1:¥148.53) for the second quarter ended
September 30, 2022, up by 9% from the same
period in the previous fiscal year.
Nan Ya PCB Jan-Oct Revenue
Up 24% YoY E
Nan Ya Printed Circuit Board Corp. (Nan Ya
PCB), a Taiwan-based manufacturer of single-
sided PCBs, HDI PCBs, and rigid-flex PCBs,
has posted unaudited sales of NT$6 billion
($187.76 million at $1=NT$31.95) in October
2022, up by 1.66% from the previous month
and by 17.7% compared to October of last year.
DownStream Flexes in Rigid-Flex E
DownStream Technologies co-founder Joe
Clark and Senior Product Marketing Manager
Mark Gallant discuss some of their latest tool
updates, including a greater focus on bringing
post-processing functionality, such as inter-
layer analysis capability, to rigid-flex circuits.
American Standard Circuits Earns Its IATF
16949 Automotive Re-Certification E
Anaya Vardya, president and CEO of Ameri-
can Standard Circuits, recently announced
that his company has earned their IATF 16949
Automotive re-certification by passing their
recent audit.
Skin-like Electronics Could Monitor Your
Health Continuously E
Flexible, wearable electronics are making their
way into everyday use, and their full poten-
tial is still to be realized. Soon this technol-
ogy could be used for precision medical sen-
sors attached to the skin, designed to perform
health-monitoring and diagnosis.
Flexible Thinking: The Chameleon of
Interconnection Technologies E
Flexible circuits are arguably the first instantia-
tion of electronic interconnections. A flexible
interconnection structure was first disclosed in
patent literature by Albert Hansen—unearthed
by gied researcher, innovator, and self-
described technology generalist Dr. Ken Gil-
leo. e roots of flexible circuits, as determined
by the patent Gilleo uncovered, date back to a
1903 British patent.
Global Flexible PCB Market Report 2022:
Increasing Demand from Automotive
Industry Driving Growth E
According to official industrial sources, around
1.5 billion smartphones were sold in the year
2019, due to the rise in disposable income and
increasing mobile data connectivity. Countries
such as China, India, and the United States are
expected to play a significant role in the market
growth in the coming years.
The Printed Electronics Roundtable,
Part 3 E
In this third and final installment of the round-
table, experts discuss some of the differences
and similarities between PEC and traditional
PCB processes, the future of printed electronic
circuits, and why the best way to learn about
this technology is through networking with
veterans of this segment who are eager to share
their expertise with the next generation.
Ibiden 2Q Sales Up 9% YoY E
Japanese PCB maker Ibiden Co. Ltd has posted
a net sales of ¥213.58 billion ($1.4 billion at
