Republished guest column from Photonics Online. By Jason Marsh and Benjamin Leever, NextFlex From a Department of Defense (DoD) standpoint, flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) is a highly interesting technology area. FHE is a new category of microelectronics using novel materials with stretchable, conformable, and flexible form factors. This emerging technology …
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Republished guest column from The Mercury News. By Debbie Budd, Brynt Parmeter, and Margaret Daoud-Gray As Silicon Valley seeks to grow and diversify its tech workforce, one obvious solution is overlooked: The 15 community colleges in our region. They are educating the next generation of the Valley workforce. With 250,000 …
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Project Call 3.0 Status Pre-proposals are due to NextFlex by close of business today, July 12. Already we’ve received 69 cover sheets, indicating a healthy response to Project Call 3.0. What is exciting to see is the number of new organizations seeking to participate which points to growing interest in …
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What do you get when you put two really tech-savvy guys on a stage together to talk about the highest priority issues in manufacturing flexible hybrid electronics? You get a deep appreciation for the complexity of the challenges, and the breadth of opportunities that lay ahead. Dr. Anwar Mohammed, Senior …
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By Brynt Parmeter, Director of Workforce Development, Education, and Training We wouldn’t have thought it possible, but overwhelming interest from community colleges and high schools around the San Francisco Bay Area, combined with enthusiastic feedback from high school students themselves is a great problem to have. Due to a lot …
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iNEMI’s largest and most extensive roadmap is on sale online Herndon, Virginia — The 2017 Roadmap from the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI) is now on sale on the iNEMI website. With 28 chapters (the most ever published by iNEMI) and 2,300+ pages, this latest edition of the roadmap provides …
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