Flextronics launches industrial park in Chennai.
Flextronics International--a design and engineering company for electronics manufacturers--has expanded its presence in India through the first phase completion of its planned 0.74 [km.sup.2] (eight million [ft.sup.2]) industrial park in Chennai. The industrial park will offer vertically integrated services including design, plastic injection moulding, printed circuit board...

IMI represents RP in Internepcon World.
Integrated Microelectronics Inc. (IMI), a leading electronics manufacturing solutions (EMS) provider, has announced that it will exhibit in the Internepcon World Japan 2005 on January 19 to 21, 2005 in Tokyo Big Sight in Ariake, Tokyo, Japan. IMI will showcase its products and services in Booth No. 43-41 in...

LaBarge Continues Production of Raptor Backplane Assemblies Under New $5.5 Million Raytheon Contract.
InDEFENSE-19 September 2006-LaBarge Continues Production of Raptor Backplane Assemblies Under New $5.5 Million Raytheon Contract(C)2006 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com LaBarge Inc. has received a contract valued at $5.5 million from the Raytheon Company's Space and Airborne Systems in El Segundo, Calif., for continued production of backplane assemblies for...

AMD LEFT TO FIGHT INTEL'S SLOT 1 ALL ALONE?
A fifteen-year-old technology cross-licensing agreement between Intel Corp and National Semiconductor Corp appears to have given NatSemi crucial rights to use Intel's proprietary new 'Slot 1' chip to motherboard connection and P6 bus, should the PC industry move to adopt Intel's technology as standard. That scenario would leave Advanced...

INTEL AND NEON UNVEIL SET-TOP BOX FOR FAST NET ACCESS.
The first Intel Pentium-based set-top box was announced yesterday at Comdex by Intel Corp and Milpitas, California-based Neon Technology Inc. The box uses a Pentium processor with MMX multimedia instructions and supports ADSL and Ethernet for broadband consumer users. Neon says the use of the Pentium will enable its...

Ionics EMS bags $1-B Philips contract.
Ionics EMS, the electronic contract manufacturers of technology company Ionics, Inc., announced yesterday it has been awarded a US$1 billion contract by Royal Philips Electronics N.V. of the Netherlands to make 10 million CD rewritable drives annually. The company will invest US$50 million to build and equip...

BUSINESS BRIEFS.
COLUMN: BUSINESS BRIEFS Alseres partners HOPKINTON - Alseres Pharmaceuticals Inc. is pursuing discussions with potential corporate partners over its molecular imaging, nerve repair and regenerative therapy programs and assets, the company's chief executive said this week in a letter to shareholders. Peter G....

Electronic firms eye new business; As ASEAN market research center for EMS, ODM.
Byline: BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT Philippine electronics manufacturing firms are eyeing to become ASEAN's market research center to the growing electronic manufacturing service (EMS) and original design manufacturing (ODM) industry, the market of which is expected to reach $ 328.4 billion by 2010. "The Philippines is well...

Getting it done; Worcester-based contract manufacturer busy filling orders, jobs.
Byline: Neal Simpson WORCESTER - While manufacturers across Massachusetts were cutting thousands of jobs last year, Columbia Tech was doing something unusual: Hiring. The Worcester producer of everything from bomb-sniffing detectors to food serving and vending machines - including an innovative 45-second ice cream maker...

DoST signs agreement with EIAPI for electronic applications development.
In a bid to boost the untapped potential of the country's electronics industry and increase its global competitiveness, the Department of Science and Technology (DoST) has recently signed an agreement with local electronics firms in developing their capability in different electronics applications. In an interview, Philippine Council...