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 Headquarters in Milpitas, California | |
| Company type | Public company |
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| NYSE: SLR | |
| Industry | Electronics Manufacturing Services, product design and after sales services |
| Founded | 1977 |
| Defunct | 2007 |
| Fate | Purchased by Flextronics |
| Successor | Flex |
| Products | Consumer Electronics, Routers, Switches, TVs |
| Revenue | US$10.56 billion (2006)[1] |
Solectron Corporation was an American electronics manufacturing company for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). It was the first electronics manufacturing services (EMS) industry in 1977.[citation needed] Solectron's first customer designed and distributed an electronic controller for solar energy equipment. The name "Solectron" was a portmanteau of the words "solar" and "electronics".[2]
Solectron had sales of around $12 billion a year, and employed 70,000 people in 23 countries.[3] The company was acquired by Flex on October 15, 2007.[4]
- ^ SLR – Solitario Resources Corporation – Google Finance
- ^ Industrial Automation
- ^ "Solectron - The invisible multinational". Archived from the original on 2019-04-24.
- ^ "Flextronics Buys Solectron for $3.6 Billion". CNBC. Reuters. 2007-06-04. Retrieved 2017-06-01.