In electronics Finland is known as the home of Nokia. And to be honest, Nokia´s role in Finland is massive. It´s the customer everyone wants to have. Nokia still has a huge fab in Salo, where the production of most of the new models is launched. The bulk of Nokia R&D is done in Finland.
 
But Nokia is not the "be all end all" of Finnish electronics. A lot of interesting research in being done here. A lot of it is concentrated on wireless solutions, but there are also industrial & embedded applications in production and in the design boards.
 
Finland has suffered from production shifting to lower cost countries. This is a well known problem for all Western European countries. In manual labour or simple assembly we cannot compete with the Chinese, or the Indian or even with our neighbours in Estonia. But when it comes to design, the Finnish skills are hard to match. And that´s easy to proove, just look at latest N series phones from Nokia. They have quality engineering written all over the device.
 
In addition to Nokia's mobile phones and base stations, we design and manufacture a range of other types of products in Finland, ranging from data communications to mediacal instruments and systems of industrial automation. All in all more than 200 companies, such as Polar Electro, Elektrobit, Botnia Hitec, Sweco-PIC, ABB, Beamex, GE Medical, Vaisala, Elcoteq, Teleste, Vacon and many others.
 
Prosessori is the market leader in Finland
 
There is only one monthly publication that covers high tech on a broad basis. Prosessori is the only professional magazine reaching all the top professionals in Finland. Prosessori offers its readers a lot more detailed information on electronics than any other publication.
 
The distribution of Prosessori is close to 10 thousand copies, but because a number of magazines are circulated in companies, the magazine can boast of a total of close to 25,000 separate readers.
 
Prosessori is in close touch with the development of electronics, data technology, telecommunications and industrial systems. It focuses on the latest development trends, brings news and shows light to new techniques and systems. This shows well in our readership. One third of all readers of Prosessori have a polytechnic or university background.
 
Prosessori Magazine won the EIS Electronics award 2003 granted by the Finnish Electronics Engineering Society. The commentary of the jury emphasized that for more than 20 years already the Prosessori Magazine has contributed to the success story of Finnish electronics.
 
To complement the printed edition you can also find Prosessori on the Internet at www.prosessori.fi. As well as links to articles in the current edition, the online edition has daily news updates, a conference and seminar listing and access to an archive of articles stretching back over 7 years.