Arrow CEO Sean Kerins departs; Bill Austen named interim CEO September 17, 2025 Arrow Electronics says Chief Executive Officer Sean Kerins has stepped down as director, president, and CEO of the company, and that board member William (Bill) F. Austen has been appointed interim president and CEO. No reasons were given for Kerins’ departure.
ASS and LHMT join forces to form new company within Schmoll Group September 17, 2025 ASS e.K. becomes part of LHMT GmbH – and together they form ASS x LHMT under the Schmoll Maschinen umbrella. The new company combines proven expertise with global strength, aiming to deliver more innovative and future-proof automation and manufacturing solutions.
Hanwha partners with BAE on anti-jamming GPS for guided missiles September 15, 2025 The collaboration between South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace and BAE Systems will leverage BAE’s expertise in military GPS and anti-jamming solutions to counter sophisticated electronic warfare threats.
X-FAB opens new cleanroom at its Malaysian site September 12, 2025 X-FAB has officially opened a new manufacturing line at its Sarawak facility. This expansion – representing a USD 600 million investment – has added 6,000 square meters of cleanroom space and was completed in just two years, from groundbreaking to the first production lots.
Scintil raises €50 million to scale integrated photonics for AI factories September 10, 2025 The funding enables France’s Scintil Photonics to expand hiring, accelerate production and deepen its international presence as it delivers the industry’s first single-chip DWDM light engine, integrating multi-wavelength lasers with silicon photonics, aligned with next-generation CPO.
TDK launches compact thin-film inductors for optical transceivers September 10, 2025 The new component achieves the highest standard performance for an inductor with 10 μH in 1206 size with TDK’s proprietary metallic magnetic materials and structural designs.
Andøya teams up with Rheinmetall to enhance European space capabilities September 02, 2025 This alliance will provide regular commercial launch services and flexible, rapid response capabilities from the European mainland. It will also offer Tactical Responsive Launch (TacRL) capabilities, ensuring secure and resilient operation of satellites with expedited reaction times.
Destinus acquires Daedalean for $225M to expand AI capabilities September 01, 2025 The AI solutions developed by Daedalean will enhance human operators’ effectiveness and support decision-making in managing flight systems and drone swarms.
Hitachi Energy acquires remaining stake of eks Energy August 29, 2025 The integration of eks Energy’s innovative technology, talent and enterprising spirit provides Hitachi Energy with greater strategic and operational flexibility.
Rapidus team up with Keysight to improve yield August 27, 2025 Japanese foundry Rapidus has entered into a strategic collaboration with Keysight Technologies Japan K.K. The companies have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to develop a high-precision Process Design Kit (PDK) for Rapidus’ 2nm gate-all-around (GAA) semiconductors
Fluence, ACE launch automated energy storage factory in Vietnam August 27, 2025 With a projected annual manufacturing capacity of 35 GWh, the facility features a fully automated production process that is designed to enhance productivity and safety.
Shibaura, Waseda partner with Fujitsu to control robot posture August 26, 2025 By expressing the orientation and position of each robot link as a qubit, and by replicating the structural influence of parent joint movements on child joints through quantum entanglement, the number of necessary calculations was significantly reduced compared to conventional classical methods.
INDIC expands into Europe with new office in Stockholm August 20, 2025 Indic Electronics Pvt. Ltd. (INDIC), an Indian EMS provider, is expanding into Europe with the opening of a new sales office in Stockholm. This marks the company's first physical presence on the continent as it looks to strengthen ties with regional clients and partners.
QCi awarded TFLN photonic chip contract by US’s NIST August 18, 2025 Quantum Computing Inc. (QCi) has been awarded a contract by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), part of the US Department of Commerce, for the design and fabrication of thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic integrated circuits (PICs).
Xanadu partners with DISCO to develop advanced wafer processing August 15, 2025 This partnership focuses on enhancing wafer dicing processes, specialized wafer preparation for heterogeneous integration and assembly, as well as achieving ultra-smooth surfaces through polishing optimization.
Jeh raises $11M to advance next-gen aerospace manufacturing August 11, 2025 Jeh Aerospace, a startup with operations in the US and India, is building precision manufacturing powered by software-defined manufacturing. It leverages friend-shoring to combine access to the US market with India’s talent pool.
A homemade crisis: Europe's EMS market shrank 14% in 2024 August 06, 2025 At Evertiq Expo Berlin, market analyst Dieter Weiss (in4ma) and Christoph Solka (IPC, today Global Electronics Association) took the stage once more — not to speak of promise and growth, but of collapse. With data from over 400 companies and biting commentary, the duo unpacked what they claim to be the worst year for Europe’s EMS industry in two decades — and a crisis entirely of the industry’s own making.
LS ELECTRIC, GE Vernova sign MOU to localize converter equipment August 06, 2025 Having already achieved localization of HVDC conversion transformers (CTR), LS ELECTRIC plans to embed GE Vernova’s advanced technology in converter valves to complete the localization of voltage-source conversion facilities.
Report: Kaynes planning to set up $570M facility in Tamil Nadu August 04, 2025 The upcoming plant at Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu will manufacture advanced components such as 74-layer PCBs, high-density interconnect (HDI) PCBs, flexible PCBs, high-performance laminates, camera module assemblies, and wire harness assemblies, the report said.
SUNOTEC, Sungrow sign 2.4 GWh battery storage agreement July 30, 2025 This agreement marks the first BESS project in Bulgaria with Sungrow BESS. For SUNOTEC, the collaboration underlines the company’s long-term strategy to accelerate the integration of flexible and smart energy systems into its solar infrastructure portfolio.
Zimmer Biomet acquires robotics firm Monogram for $177 million July 24, 2025 Monogram’s semi- and fully autonomous robotic technologies are expected to add new and differentiated capabilities to expand Zimmer’s flagship ROSA Robotics platform and broad suite of navigation and enabling technologies.
Hungarian EMS provider Videoton acquires stake in Limtronik July 23, 2025 Through this transaction, the Videoton Group, a privately owned, family-run Hungarian contract manufacturer, establishes a production presence in Germany and the US.
Anritsu introduces advanced 5G device test solution to boost communications July 23, 2025 The 1024QAM modulation for downlink offers approximately 25% improvement in data throughput compared to the current 256QAM standard for the same frequency bandwidth.
GM partners with Redwood Materials to boost energy storage in US July 22, 2025 In June, Redwood Materials launched Redwood Energy, a new business that deploys both used EV packs and new modules into fast, low-cost energy-storage systems built to meet surging power demand from AI data centers and other applications.
Blink acquires Zemetric to expand EV charging solutions July 21, 2025 Zemetric simplifies charging with market-leading hardware, software and service solutions that are designed and built to be interoperable and highly reliable to scale electrification.
Valens’s chipsets enable MIPI A-PHY platform for Embedded Vision by D3 July 17, 2025 The A-PHY platform offers D3 Embedded customers a series of unique benefits, including unparalleled EMI resilience, longer link distances, and the ability to operate over simple, low-cost cabling.
Comau, Roboze collaborate to expand into new market sectors July 14, 2025 The two Italian companies have entered into a collaboration aimed at combining digital additive manufacturing and automation to open new customer and market segments.
Cetec ERP expands into larger office in Austin to boost growth July 11, 2025 The new location, situated within a prominent Austin business complex, provides ample room for current operations and offers flexible space for future expansion as the company continues to scale.
Siemens completes acquisition of ebm-papst’s industrial drive tech business July 11, 2025 Integrating the new portfolio into the existing automation portfolio and leveraging Siemens' global sales network will open up new markets and significant business potential in the field of intelligent, battery-powered drive and robot solutions.
ROHM releases level 3 SPICE models with enhanced simulation speed July 10, 2025 ROHM’s earlier Level 1 SPICE models for SiC MOSFETs addressed this need by precisely replicating key device characteristics. However, challenges such as simulation convergence issues and prolonged computation times revealed the need for further refinement.
Boeing wins $2.8B contract to enhance US strategic SATCOM capabilities July 10, 2025 The ESS space vehicles will provide increased capacity, flexibility, reliability and resilience compared to the strategic communications satellites currently on orbit. Since 2020, Boeing has been executing technical maturation and risk reduction under a rapid prototyping contract for the US Space Force.
GlobalFoundries to acquire MIPS to accelerate AI and compute capabilities July 09, 2025 This strategic acquisition will expand GF’s portfolio of customizable IP offerings, allowing it to further differentiate its process technologies with IP and software capabilities.