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• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• Intel invests $7B in US manufacturing, supports 7000 jobs as it looks to 32 nm
  
  Author: By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News | Date: Feb 10, 2009
  Intel’s US investment will be made at existing manufacturing sites in Oregon, Arizona, and New Mexico, and will support approximately 7,000 jobs at those locations. The investment comes after Intel in January announced changes to its manufacturing operations and up to 6000 potential layoffs, and
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• ASE Test December Revs Up, Quarterly Revs Flat
  
  Author: Online Staff | Date: Jan 5, 2006
  The backend service provider sees December revenues jump 7 percent sequentially, while December quarter revenues were flat.
• ChipMOS Sees Continued Sequential Rev Growth
  
  Author: Online Staff | Date: Nov 16, 2005
  Although revenues were down slightly year over year, the Taiwanese backend services provider continues to be bullish for the near-term.
• Outsourcing services now a key part of manufacturing chain, Gartner reports
  
  Author: By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News | Date: Jul 23, 2008
  The continued industry movement toward fabless business models plays directly into the hands of the semiconductor assembly and test services (SATS) companies, with the net result that foundry and SATS outsourcing services will grow faster than the overall semiconductor industry, according to the
• ASE February Revs Jump
  
  Author: Online Staff | Date: Mar 9, 2006
  The test and assembly subcon reports that February revenues, while down a bit sequentially, jumped nearly 44 percent year over year.