An unusually strong sales growth in the traditionally weakest quarter helped the European semiconductor distribution industry to significantly reduce its decline of earlier quarters.

IPC – Association Connecting Electronics Industries® has announced the election of a new board chairman, vice chairman and secretary/treasurer plus nine board members. The officers and directors will serve through December 31, 2007. 

As rated by the attendees, the Best of Conference Award at the International Wafer-Level Packaging Conference (IWLPC) held in November 2005 was presented to Peter Salmon, SysFlex, Inc (Mountain View, CA).