82 PCB007 MAGAZINE I MARCH 2021
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EPTE Newsletter: Taiwan Releases
2020 PCB Production Numbers E
T h e Ta i w a n
Printed Circuit
A s s o c i a t i o n
( T P C A ) r e -
leased Decem-
ber's shipment
data. Full year
data is also posted for 2020, so it's time to re-
view the industry's performance.
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Predicting a 'Roaring Twenties'
Innovation Boom E
e 2020s have not started as
anyone would have wished.
e COVID-19 pandemic has
exposed weaknesses in sup-
ply chains and in global man-
ufacturing, yet this could still
be the most innovative de-
cade ever.
3
North American PCB Industry Sales
Begin 2021 Up 4% E
IPC announced the January 2021 findings from
its North American Printed Circuit Board
(PCB) Statistical Program. e book-to-bill
ratio stands at 1.14.
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Joe Fjelstad's Book Review:
The Innovators E
"e Innovators: How a Group
of Hackers, Geniuses, and
Geeks Created the Digital Rev-
olution" by Walter Isaacson
is the best technology history
book I have ever read, and at
the same time one of the most
engaging and entertaining. It is a forte of Isaac-
son to write biographies of great people. I have
read his other books on Leonardo da Vinci,
Steve Jobs, Ben Franklin and Albert Einstein
and found them equally brilliant. Isaacson has
a number of other titles I have yet to get to. He
is a singularly great storyteller.
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