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European Chip Giants NXP, STMicroelectronics Prepare for Layoffs

02/06/2025 | I-Connect007 Editorial Team
While companies like NVIDIA dominate the headlines with announcements of record chip sales associated with AI, European chip makers that are more dependent on industrial and automotive electronics are under pressure as demands for their chips slow. NXP, headquartered in the Netherlands, recently announced disappointing financials, down 5% from the previous year, primarily due to softening demand in those markets.

U.S. Work Visas Demystified

01/28/2025 | Marcy LaRont, PCB007 Magazine
The H-1B visa has been a long-time friend of the U.S. technology and manufacturing sectors. It allows companies to bring high-level talent from other countries or transition university students with student visas over to the workforce. This is a boon for U.S. public diplomacy while providing a deeper talent pipeline for fulfilling U.S. workforce needs.

Marcy’s Musings: Fueling the Workforce Pipeline

01/23/2025 | Marcy LaRont -- Column: Marcy's Musings
Workforce, workforce, workforce. It's a conversation in manufacturing that occurs nearly as often as discussing quality and reliability. Finding good employees has always been a challenge, but the manufacturing industry has failed more spectacularly than most to draw new workers into the fold. In a domestic culture that has diminished the importance and relative social standing of manufacturing jobs, we now stare down a gaping hole where a ready, skilled next-generation workforce should be. It’s estimated there are 67,000 unfilled technical jobs in the U.S. semiconductor sector alone. In short, we are doing a lot of catch-up.

The Chemical Connection: Better Fabs Attract a Better Workforce

01/23/2025 | Don Ball -- Column: The Chemical Connection
Workforce problems are almost as great an issue in PCB manufacturing today as the product quality and reliability of the increasingly complex circuit boards now in demand. I believe they are directly related. A quality workforce makes it easier to produce a quality product. Unfortunately, as an industry, we have not done a good job of attracting quality young people for today’s production requirements.

Department of Commerce Finalizes Long-Term Partnership with Natcast to Operate the National Semiconductor Technology Center

01/20/2025 | U.S. Department of Commerce
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded Natcast up to $6.3 billion to operate the National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC) under a long-term agreement with NIST.
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