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Industry Trends Highlights 2004 p5 of 5:

• VDC forecasts market for merchant DSP boards to be US$760 million by 2008
  FEBRUARY 18--Venture Development Corporation (VDC; Natick, MA; www.vdc-corp.com/) forecasts the total market opportunity for merchant DSP boards will be US$760 million in 2008.
• International Robots & Vision Show and ATExpo announce blockbuster collocation plan
  FEBRUARY 17--Two leading manufacturing trade shows have announced a blockbuster collocation plan for 2005. The International Robots & Vision Show and the Assembly Technology Expo will be held side-by-side September 27-29, 2005, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont (Chicago), IL.
• Buses used in passive backplane ruggedized/industrial computer systems vary
  FEBRUARY 10--A new study by Venture Development Corporation (Natick, MA; www.vdc-corp.com) finds that the primary buses used in passive-backplane ruggedized/industrial computer systems vary considerably by application markets.
• Distributed/remote I/O buses/networks--which should you support?
  FEBRUARY 4--A recent study by Venture Development Corporation (Natick, MA) identifies the top five control-network interfaces for use in industrial distributed/remote I/O applications.
• North American machine-vision event set for May 4-6
  FEBRUARY 3--Practical solutions for companies planning to apply machine-vision technology is the focus of The Vision Show and Conference East at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA, May 4-6, 2004.
• New GigE Web site now available
  FEBRUARY 2--The GigE Vision Standard Committee has set up a new Web site at www.pleora.net/gige.
• NEPCON East/Electro 2004 to feature four free educational sessions
  JANUARY 15--NEPCON East/Electro will feature suppliers displaying the full range of electronics manufacturing solutions including adhesives, advance microelectronics, test equipment, rework, wire and cable assembly, and active components.
• Embedded DSP market almost twice the general-purpose DSP market
  JANUARY 13--The market for general-purpose digital-signal-processor (DSP) chips reached the $6 billion market in 2003, up a healthy 24% over the previous year, according to a new market study from Forward Concepts (Tempe, AZ).
• IPC releases IMS/PCB book-to-bill ratio and Business Report for November 2003
  JANUARY 3--IPC-Association Connecting Electronics Industries (Northbrook, IL; www.ipc.org) has announced the findings from its monthly Interconnect Manufacturing Services (IMS)/Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Statistical Program.

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