The electronics manufacturing world looks very different in 2026 than it did five years ago. Supply chain cracks that started showing in 2020 didn't get patched—they got structurally redesigned. Factory floors that once relied on manual inspection ...

For most of the past three decades, the sentence "the world's electronics are built in China" has been so consistently true as to feel almost unremarkable. But the global PCB assembly ecosystem in 2026 is more dynamic and contested than at any poin...