Where the global electronics industry connects.

This week’s coverage underscores how AI’s hardware demands are reshaping the electronics industry well beyond the data center, driving investment in advanced PCB and packaging-adjacent capabilities, new support technologies such as leak-detection flex assemblies, and sharper attention to materials built for mission-critical reliability. At the same time, the industry’s growth story is colliding with a familiar constraint: finding people with the right skills to support increasingly complex manufacturing and design needs. Add in the steady drumbeat of technical education and industry events, including PCB West, and the message is clear: electronics companies are balancing expansion, specialization, and workforce development all at once.