On March 25 2016, Nikkei Asian Review released an article that was about how manufacturers of electronic parts are still reeling from Apple’s iPhone production cost. It seems as if the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s plus has had a heavy emphasis on shipments of electronics parts from Japan. With this happening, it does not seem that the company has any signs of recovery.

For the only the second time in the history of Semiconductors, the industry is expected to experience two consecutive years of decline in revenues. According to James Hines who is a research director at Gartner, the industry is expected to decline at a 0.6 percent clip in 2016 and the market is desperate for the next in demand driver to emerge and consequently become the tide that lifts all boats so to speak. The worldwide semiconductor revenue figures for 2016 is forecasted to generate a total of $333 billion which is a slight decrease of 0.6 percent from 2015.

Precision Graphics Inc., the New Jersey based printed circuit board assembly design company, has recently become the very first certified Women Owned Small Business Printed Circuit Board Assembly Manufacturer in the state of New Jersey. Precision Graphics Inc. has been serving the printed circuit board assembly industry as a pioneer since the company’s inception in 1971. From their start as a company solely devoted to printed circuit board design, Precision Graphics Inc. has been able to evolve over the years into becoming a complete Electronic Manufacturing Services organizations offering a complete electronic parts supply. Following the belief of the company founder, Robert Weissman, that the “the customer always comes first,” the company has grown from a small design house into a global supplier.

Tech giant Samsung has just announced that it expects 2016 to be an especially weak year for the chip industry due anemic global economic conditions and fierce competition between competitors.  This announcement also comes in the wake of a speech recently made by Samsung CEO Kwon Oh-hyun in which he warned of low growth projections over the coming year. Although financial specifics were not mentioned during the speech, Oh-hyan told employees and investors that earnings for Q4 2015 will be lower than expected due to the aforementioned global economic instability as well as low seasonal demand for components.