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Sanmina Expands Technology Center in Southern California
July 4, 2017 | Sanmina Corp.Estimated reading time: 1 minute
Sanmina Corporation today announced the expansion of its technology center in Costa Mesa, California. Sanmina’s technology center now offers an end to end solution, integrating microelectronics, PCB fabrication, PCBA, memory products, quick turn prototyping, NPI (new product introduction) and manufacturing services. This fully integrated capability enables high technology companies in this region to prototype and launch advanced products with complete services in one location.
Sanmina has been operating in Costa Mesa for years, producing high technology PCBs and flex/rigid flex circuits for demanding applications including military, aerospace, semiconductor, oil & gas, medical devices and others. Sanmina has now added advanced microelectronic packaging, surface mount technology and system assembly to its technology center. Sanmina Costa Mesa also provides customers access to Sanmina’s design and manufacturing locations in North America and around the world.
Sanmina’s memory products, high capacity solid state disk drives and non-volatile memory modules, sold under the Viking TechnologyTM brand, are also developed and produced at this technology center. The Viking TechnologyTM product division brings substantial microelectronic packaging and interconnect technology to this location.
“Sanmina is proud to offer a fully integrated technology and services capability for our customers in Southern California and the southwest,” said Marco Gonzalez, EVP and COO of Sanmina’s IMS Operations in the Americas. “The complete services offered by our technology center in Costa Mesa improve time to market and simplify the supply chain for our customers in this region.”
The Costa Mesa technology center is one of Sanmina’s 20 design and manufacturing facilities in the United States. Sanmina provides customers with a complete capability in the U.S., including RF, optical, microelectronics, PCB fabrication, metal fabrication, design and manufacturing.
About Sanmina Corporation
Sanmina Corporation is a leading integrated manufacturing solutions provider serving the fastest growing segments of the global Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) market. Recognized as a technology leader, Sanmina provides end-to-end manufacturing solutions, delivering superior quality and support to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) primarily in the communications networks, storage, industrial, defense, medical, energy and industries that include embedded computing technologies such as point of sale devices, casino gaming and automotive. Sanmina has facilities strategically located in key regions throughout the world. More information about the Company is available here.
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