Sanmina
More info
- Type
- Contract manufacturer (EMS)
- Founded
- Founders
- Jure Sola, Milan Mandarić
- Headquarters
- San Jose, California
- Website
- sanmina.com
American EMS specialist in hard-to-build, regulated electronics — medical, defense, optical.
Founded in 1980 in San Jose by Jure Sola and Milan Mandarić; the name reportedly comes from the founders' children. In 2001 it merged with SCI Systems into the briefly colossal Sanmina-SCI, before the name was trimmed back in 2012.
Unlike the volume-chasing contract manufacturers, Sanmina deals in complex, low-volume products where the margin for error is zero: medical equipment, aerospace and defense electronics, optical networking. Less glamorous, higher margin.