Who saw this coming? Nam Tai in late January announced it would exit the electronics manufacturing services business following the wind down of orders for LCMs at its Shenzhen facility. If you don't know Nam Tai - and many readers won't - this might not seem like a big deal. And on its face, it isn't. Contract assemblers go out of business all the time, more than two dozen last year alone, according to our Directory of EMS Companies. But no one has ever whipsawed like Nam Tai. Just look at the revenue trajectory: $623 million in 2008, $408 million in 2009, $534 million in 2010, $602 million in 2011. Even for mid-tier EMS firms, that's a bouncy road. But wait, in 2012, Nam Tai jumped to $1.15 billion. That was enough to push them into the Top 10 among the pure-play EMS companies.
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