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• Outsourcing to China in question
  
  Author: By Rob Spiegel, Contributing Editor | Date: Nov 12, 2009
  A possible electronics-supply-chain shift may be in the works as the challenges of manufacturing in China and the still-recovering global economy have caused jitters among OEMs.
• Manufacturing trending away from China
  
  Author: By Rob Spiegel, Contributing Editor | Date: Oct 13, 2009
  The challenges of manufacturing in China and the still recovering global economy cause electronics supply chain jitters among OEMs and encourage second looks at the shift to outsource and the potential benefits of keeping manufacturing closer to home.
• Recession slowed growth of design outsourcing in 2008
  
  Author: By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News | Date: Aug 17, 2009
  According to a Gartner survey of 40 vendors offering IC design services, the number of outsourced projects grew more slowly in 2008 compared with the previous year, with survey respondents reporting rapid growth in designs at lagging-edge process nodes.
• IBM expected to cut more US jobs
  
  Author: By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News | Date: Mar 25, 2009
  IBM will soon lay off a large number of US-based employees from its global business services unit, according to a report.
• The changing outsourcing landscape in China
  
  Author: By Amy Wang, China Outlook Consulting | Date: Jan 1, 2008
  Despite its status as a manufacturing powerhouse, China lacks major homegrown EMS providers. A China expert looks at why, and whether the situation will change.
• Mobile phone contract-manufacturing outsourcing decelerates as demand lags
  
  Author: By Gail Flower, Contributing Editor | Date: Apr 28, 2009
  Nokia and other mobile phone OEMs recall some manufacturing from EMS providers as the mobile phone market shrinks and vertically integrated EMS companies react to the waning business.
• Is your amplifier offset way out of whack?
  
  Author: By Bonnie Baker | Date: Jun 25, 2009
  Consider trying to explain offset error by reexamining your amplifier's specifications.
• Outsourcing an IC design: Some advice from the trenches
  
  Author: By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor | Date: Sep 3, 2009
  In this climate, outsourcing is becoming a mandatory skill for IC-design managers. But it's not intuitively obvious.
• Fujitsu expands in Texas, Semtech in China
  
  Author: By Matthew Miller, Editor in Chief, EDN.com | Date: Jul 25, 2008
  Fujitsu Network Communications announced today that it will add 67 jobs in its Richardson, Texas, headquarters in order to better serve its demanding optical-networking customers. Meanwhile, Camarillo, CA-based Semtech is making an offshore move—but for similar customer-satisfaction reasons.
• Outsourcing in a troubled economy
  
  Author: By Rob Spiegel, Contributing Editor | Date: Jan 13, 2009
  The global economic crisis is certain to have an impact on outsourcing in the electronics industry. What’s not certain is whether the crisis will spur a new round in outsourcing or prompt a contraction among electronic manufacturing services companies and original design manufacturers.
• As design outsourcing matures, challenges appear
  
  Author: By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor | Date: Nov 13, 2008
  There has been much angst about design outsourcing in recent years, most of which has come from US-based designers who have lost or who fear losing their jobs. But as the industry gets more experience with the practice, other problems also emerge. These problems impact not just designers but also
• If your job moves to India, follow it
  
  Author: By Tam Harbert, Contributing Editor | Date: Apr 7, 2009
  A job is a job, and with unemployment soaring in America, US workers may have to go where the jobs are, according to some career strategists and offshoring consultants. While globalization is making international experience a requirement for many tech positions, offshoring critics object to the
• Finding, hiring, and keeping next-generation talent
  
  Author: By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News | Date: May 19, 2008
  In the all too near future, tech and telecom companies may find their toughest competitions aren't for customers or patent rights on the latest and greatest innovations. With the coming shortage of critical talent, such companies may find themselves going head-to-head over next-generation employees.
• Another issue on design outsourcing: what about the other costs?
  
  Author: Ron Wilson | Date: Feb 26, 2010
  EDN Executive Editor Ron Wilson explores how IC design teams really work: the struggle for power efficiency and performance, wrestling with semiconductor processes and design methodologies, the challenges of global design teams. How do we somehow herd architecture, IP, design and verification into
• Driving meta-innovation worldwide
  
  Author: By Rick Nelson, Editor in Chief | Date: Jun 26, 2008
  Innovators 2008: The 14 vignettes that this special issue presents provide valuable insights into how you can develop innovative products, and they touch on the changing nature of engineering in today's world. But what of the future of innovation? Perhaps innovation itself needs an overhaul.
• Engineer salaries: A look at global compensation and job satisfaction
  
  Author: By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief | Date: Nov 13, 2008
  Exclusive engineer-salary survey results: Engineers contend with technical challenges as salaries pace inflation.
• Troubled economy could open more doors to outsourcing
  
  Author: By Rob Spiegel | Date: Feb 5, 2009
  Manufacturers that shunned outsourcing may change their tunes during this economic downturn. One area of potential growth for EMS (electronic-manufacturing-services) providers is with portions of the electronics market, such as the defense, aerospace, and medical-equipment industries, that have not
• Fast Guide: Electronics companies deploying in China
  
  Author: By Electronic Business Staff Report | Date: Feb 28, 2007
  Fast Guide: Electronics companies deploying in China What you need to know today about doing business in China. By Electronic Business Staff Report -- Electronic Business, 2/28/2007 9:33:00 AM In this Fast Guide for electronics companies deploying (or thinking of deploying) in China, we offer
• Flexibility is key to success for compound semi manufacturing strategies
  
  Author: By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor | Date: Jul 9, 2007
  Market researchers at Strategy Analytics say that players in the compound semiconductor market are mulling manufacturing strategies while keeping their patent attorneys busy.
• Talent pool, outsourcing propel India's design firms
  
  Author: By Chitra Giridhar, Contributing Writer | Date: Jul 18, 2006
  If you wanted to save money, you went to India for IC design. But now a growing number of companies are turning to India for product innovation.