Heilind Electronics, the largest distributor of interconnect products in North America, is now stocking TE Connectivity’s inverted thru board (ITB) card edge connector, which provides a direct power connection between driver boards and the underside of LED array boards. This surface mounted connector was developed for LED lighting applications and other devices to provide a…
Samsung Electronics has started to mass produce the industry’s first 3D V-NAND flash memory. This represents a breakthrough of the current scaling limit for existing NAND flash technology with improvements in performance and area ratio, said the semiconductor manufacturer.
The global market for motive batteries used to power electric vehicles (EV) and other conveyances is set to rise to $47 billion in 2017, up more than 50 percent from $31 billion in 2013, according a new report entitled “Motive Batteries – World -2013” from IMS Research, now part of IHS (NYSE: IHS). “The rapid…
According to findings from the 2013 edition of Semicast’s Embedded Processing Service, the market share for ARM-based embedded processors in the automotive sector is judged to have passed fifty percent in 2012. Semicast defines embedded processors to include 32-bit microcontrollers and microprocessors, as well as ASICs, ASSPs and FPGAs with an integrated 32-bit core; 8/16-bit…
The global market for merchant power supplies is forecast to grow by 2.4 percent in 2013, bolstered by demand for tablets, smartphones, LED lighting, and servers, according to IMS Research.
Freescale claims the industry’s first 5-V 32-bit MCUs built on the ARM Cortex-M0+ processor, targeting white goods and industrial applications including dishwashers, refrigerators, home and building control systems, motor control fans, industrial converters and other equipment that operate in high-noise environments.
Solid-state drives (SSD) got a huge push in the first quarter from greatly expanded usage in ultrathin/Ultrabook PCs as well as in PC tablets, where shipment volume to those sectors tripled within a year’s time in a mighty display of growth, according to the latest Storage market tracker report from information and analytics provider IHS…
Broadline electronics distributors sell everything from IP&E products to semiconductors and systems, so their quarterly results provide a snapshot into the overall health in the global market. As Arrow Electronics Inc. and Avnet Inc. report their results for the June quarter, it’s clear the environment remains challenging. Both distributors saw sales increase for the quarter: …
Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT) today announced results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended June 29, 2013. Sales for the quarter ended June 29, 2013 increased 4.5% year over year to $6.59 billion; organic revenue (as defined later in this release) was up 0.2% year over year and 0.5% in constant currency Adjusted operating income…
We all know that energy is the key factor that keeps the world’s economy going. From chemical energy in food comes muscle energy in the body. The muscle movement drives the arm and hand that designs the equipment that digs the wells that release fossil fuels that are available for some finite time and in…