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Article: Outsourcing to China in question.
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- November 12, 2009
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by Rob Spiegel
Over the past two decades, a massive shift of manufacturing to China has occurred, especially for high-volume, low-mix electronics products. In recent years, however, a trend away from China has occurred, according to industry watchers and component distributors. Rising energy, transportation, and labor costs; IP (intellectual-property) issues; and counterfeit-IC problems are among the reasons they cite for the shift.
"We've seen a flurry of people jumping on the bandwagon to move from China," says Charlie Barnhart, co-founder and managing principal at Charlie Barnhart and Associates LLC (http://charliebarnhart.com ), a company that ...