The conflict between the Iran and the US is beginning to have a visible impact on the global printed circuit board (PCB) supply chain, adding further pressure to an electronics industry already dealing with rising component costs.

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Blake Moore’s Counterfeit Notification Act passed the House of Representatives. Introduced with Congressman Brad Schneider (D-IL), this legislation halts counterfeit and pirated imports into the United States. The bill changes how Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can share the packing and shipping information of suspected counterfeit products with key intellectual property rights holders, transportation carriers, and e-commerce platforms.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced the Multilateral Alignment of Technology Controls on Hardware (MATCH) Act as part of a markup of a series of export control measures aimed at ensuring America continues to lead in the AI Arms Race.  

US curbs on advanced chips pushed China to focus on its own semiconductor ecosystem. And while it trails at the very cutting edge, China's "good‑enough" technology is fast powering much of the global economy.

Seattle – A 44-year-old citizen of Iran was extradited to the United States last week and will appear today at 2:00 PM in U.S. District Court in Seattle on a nine-count indictment related to his scheme to violate trade sanctions against Iran, announced First Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Neil Floyd. Reza Dindar, aka Renda Dindar was indicted by the grand jury in August 2014.

Another victim has been impacted by Amazon's loose return policy and ended up with a product they did not want — if you can even call it a product. Bigmancal420 on the PCBuildHelp subreddit shared their story of how they ended up with a 3D-printed base...

WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday it will vote this month on ​a proposal to bar all Chinese labs from testing electronic devices such ‌as smartphones, cameras and computers for use in the U.S., widening a previous action targeting Beijing.

For some, they might see top line growth in the chip manufacturing and electronics sector and assume that the industry is healthy. But what became evident during a recent conversation with Dale Ford, chief analyst at the Electronic Components Industry Association, an industry trade group, is that it is an overly rosy perspective.

Stanley Yi Zheng, Matthew Kelly, and Tommy Shad English have been charged with conspiring to commit smuggling and export control violations. The three defendants are alleged to have sought millions of dollars’ worth of export-controlled computer chips from a California-based computer hardware company for illegal shipment to China through Thailand.

Elon Musk has announced plans for 'Terafab,' a $20–$25 billion semiconductor facility in Texas to supply AI, robotics, and space-based computing projects. The venture, involving Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, aims to produce unprecedented computing capacity but faces major logistical, financial, and technical hurdles.