Dunne pointed to the increase in demand for printed circuit boards--a component used in many electronic products.
Compaq recently laid off 1, 600 production operators in Singapore because it has moved to outsourcing its printed circuit boards.
For practically the first time in three years, it is purchasing new surface mount equipment, used to make printed circuit boards.
Miniaturized as todays drug laboratory may seem, it hardly goes beyond what electronics manufacturers were doing 40 years ago when they came up with printed circuit boards.
E. prototype (and future concept) is heavily influenced by the look of printed circuit boards, or "printed circuit motifs" as claimed by Renault's press release.
The book-to-bill ratio for printed circuit boards was 1.02 in June, up from 1.0 in May and 0.97 in April, according to IPC, an industry trade association.
They are essential in the production of printed circuit boards.
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We are now twenty-three years down the road from the Apple I and that first collection of crude machines, most of which were little more than hand-soldered printed circuit boards.
The printed circuit boards inside the housings failed muster.
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Singapore makes lots of other electronics devices: printers, CD-ROM drives, DVD drives and printed circuit boards -- not to mention DRAMs (memory chips) and the sound cards and graphics cards found in PCs.
Even in the case of precious metals like gold and palladium, she said recovery of scrap is much higher if the printed circuit boards are manually removed, rather than being thrown in a shredder.
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The most complex part of the build was etching the printed circuit boards that spotted when a body part or the tongs touched the live edges of the hole it was in, said Mr Lang.
Multi-Fineline Electronics, a provider of flexible printed circuit boards used in mobile phones and other products, late Thursday warned that results for its fiscal third quarter ended June 30 will fall short of previous estimates.
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