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IHS COMPLETES SALE OF PUBLISHING GROUP ASSETS.


IHS IHS

(I.H.S.) first three letters of Greek spelling of Jesus; also taken as acronym of Iesus Hominum Salvator ‘Jesus, Savior of Mankind.’ [Christian Symbolism: Brewer Dictionary, 480]

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 Publishing Group (Libertyville, IL), a division of Information Handling Services (Englewood, CO), has completed the divestiture The breakup of AT&T. By federal court order, AT&T divested itself on January 1, 1984 of its 23 operating companies, which became known as the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs).  of its publishing assets with the sale of SMT (1) (Surface Mount Technology) See surface mount.

(2) (Station ManagemenT) An FDDI network management protocol that provides direct management. Only one node requires the software.

SMT - Station Management
, SMT Asia/Pacific, Advanced Packaging, Connector Specifier and Vacuum & Thin- Film magazines to PennWell (Tulsa. OK). No terms of the deal were given.

Operations for the acquired titles will be moved to PennWell's Advanced Technology division in Nashua (NH). Division president/coo Adam Japko said the acquired magazines "provide a strong strategic fit with several of our existing semiconductor and electronics manufacturing This article presents a typical manufacturing process of an electronic assembly. Component manufacturing
Components such as resistors, capacitors and integrated circuits are generally made by specialized contractors.
 titles and will expand our total reach and influence with readers and marketers in the electronics industry.

SMT targets design and process engineers. PennWell said it is the only publication in the market that focuses exclusively on surface mount technology. It was started in 1986 and has a controlled circulation of 46,000. Advanced Packaging is targeted to electronics engineers and includes coverage of new technologies in integrated circuit packaging Integrated circuit packaging is the final stage of semiconductor device fabrication per se, followed by IC testing.

In the integrated circuit industry it is called simply packaging and sometimes semiconductor device assembly, or simply assembly.
. Launched in 1992, it has a circulation of 27,000.

Connector Specifier covers the latest developments in electronic system connection devices, including board connectors, fiber optics fiber optics, transmission of digitized messages or information by light pulses along hair-thin glass fibers. Each fiber is surrounded by a cladding having a high index of refractance so that the light is internally reflected and travels the length of the fiber , cables and cords, and sockets. It was started in 1985 and has a controleld circulation of 35,000.

Last month, IHS Publishing sold Compliance and FacilityCare magazines to Douglas Publications (Richmond, VA).
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Date:Dec 24, 1999
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