As hoped, my last blog spurred some conversation within the distribution industry. I’ve heard from a company that remembers how business was done before the Internet came along. Of course, that conversation was by phone. But we’ll be moving it online shortly. (See: In Distribution, How Much Support is Enough?) The question “How much attention…
KOA Speer Electronics, Inc., of Bradford, PA, was presented with the 2013 Passive Category Supplier of the Year Award during the company’s Annual Supplier Conference. The Supplier of the Year award is an acknowledgement of significant contributions made during the year by suppliers and is based upon quality, delivery, total cost of ownership, lead time…
CooCox, the highly integrated ARM® Cortex™-M design environment (IDE) from Newark element14, has been extended to support the new STMicroelectronics Value-Line of microcontrollers (MCUs), enabling designers to quickly develop applications across the STM32 Value-Line MCUs. The new design support is a dividend of the close collaboration between ST and Premier Farnell (LSE:pfl), parent company of…
Future Electronics, a global leading distributor of electronic components, announced immediate availability of Renesas’ ultra-low-power Wi-Fi solutions with integrated GainSpan Wi-Fi adapters. Wi-Fi is the most extensively deployed networking infrastructure and is the connectivity medium of choice for products in diverse markets, providing high levels of encryption and security via WPA2, achieving high throughput (72Mbps…
In putting together the slides for a technical review, I realized that two thirds of the staff at Lytica have technical degrees; mostly electrical engineering but also computer science, mathematics and related fields. While not a total surprise, it is unusual to have this technical depth in a supply chain company and it is also…
Peter Diamandis, M.D., has been selected through a vote of electronics industry professionals to present the opening keynote at IPC APEX EXPO® on Tuesday, March 25, 2014, in Las Vegas. Diamandis, whose personal motto is, “The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself,” is chairman and CEO of the X Prize Foundation,…
According to DRAMeXchange, a research division of TrendForce, the market penetration rate for USB 3.0 flash drives may only be 10% in 2013, which is weaker than expected. Even though the size of the USB 3.0 flash drive market has yet to expand, a number of controller IC manufacturers are already starting to hasten their…
KEMET Corporation, a leading global supplier of electronic components, today announced the kick-off of its 30th KEMET Institute of Technology (KIT) Series. Beginning at its Simpsonville Innovation Center on September 18-19, KIT features an in-depth look at how KEMET capacitors are developed and manufactured as well as their applications across the electronics industry. “KIT is…
America II Electronics, Inc., one of the world’s largest independent distributors of semiconductors and electronic components, today announced that its president, Brian Ellison, has been elected to IDEA’s Board of Trustees. Ellison has been with America II for 10 years and, as president, is responsible for the company’s business in North America and Europe. He…
With health care costs soaring at an unsustainable rate, providers are increasingly moving into a preventive mode, with an emphasis on screening and very early diagnostics. As a result, key sensor technologies will boom, with microfluidic devices growing to a $4.5 billion market and sensing electrodes to $5 billion in 2022, according to Lux Research.…