-BT TAKES STAKE IN NEW OPTO-ELECTRONICS COMPANY.

Electronics manufacturing and product management services provider Jabil Circuit and Oberkochen, Germany-based opto-electronic player Carl Zeiss AG have formed a joint venture to develop optical modules, the companies reported today. The companies believe the partnership will allow St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Jabil to offer optical module capability to its growing display ......

Flextronics (Singapore), a global provider of operational services, and Casio Computer Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan), a consumer electronics company, have announced a contract manufacturing agreement in which Flextronics will manufacture a variety of Casio's electronic products. The agreement includes the purchase of Casio's production facility in Shah Alam, Malaysia. In ......

The Valeo Group said it began construction of a new 65,000-square-foot electronics manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas. This highly automated electronics production site, to be completed next spring, will be Valeo's first electronics manufacturing facility in North America, the company said. The facility's 170 employees will work jointly with ......

In an effort to expand its optical product line, Intel Corp. today announced it has acquired West Bay Semiconductor Inc. in a cash-for-assets transaction. Financial terms were not disclosed. West Bay, based in Vancouver, Canada, designs networking chips for voice and data transport over Synchronous Optical Networking/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SONET/SDH)-based ......

HEADNOTE Much of the empirical research in the past two decades has suggested that quality management (QM) is context dependent. This research develops an empirical QM model in a technology-based sector-electronics manufacturing. Based on quantitative and qualitative investigations of 225 electronics firms in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta ......

The electronics business is an odd one. Most of the time, people in the industry focus on little things, such as deciding which tiny component to design into one of a hundred products. Perhaps that's a reflection of an industry that goes to ever greater lengths to produce ever smaller ......

The Australian electronics industry has missed a golden opportunity to demonstrate its expertise by declining to attend Electronica, the Munich-based global showcase for electronics excellence. Despite supporting an agenda to increase exports and being offered government incentives, an investigation by Dial Electronics revealed not a single Australian electronics company among ......

(Final installment in 4-part series) Here´s a sampling of companies using nanotechnology as a basis for their products who have received capital from venture capital firms such as Harris & Harris, Rockport Capital, Arch Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Venrock Associates and Lux Capital. Innovalight Santa Clara, CA Innovalight is ......