San Jose, Calif. — WPG Americas Inc. today announced a new franchise agreement with Power Integrations to distribute their full line of high-performance integrated circuits and diodes. These products enable compact, energy-efficient AC-DC power supplies for a vast range of electronic products. “On behaIf of WPG Americas I am extremely happy and privileged to add…
Palo Alto, Calif. – HP is acquiring Aruba Networks, a provider of network access solutions for the mobile enterprise, in a deal valued at about $3 billion, positioning HP as an industry leader in enterprise mobility. Both companies expect the combination of their complementary product portfolios and go-to-market strategies will drive revenue growth and strengthen…
Declining prices are always a good news/bad news scenario in the electronics components industry. Buyers win when prices dip, but vendors have a hard time meeting revenue and profit goals. After experiencing a fall to the bottom and a price slump in LED during 2012-2013, quite a few LED enterprises have been forced to go…
CDM Electronics, a premier authorized distributor of electronic connectors and cables, today announced the availability of a broad range of Times Microwave Systems’ coaxial cable assemblies, sweep leads, test leads, loads and adapters that are approved by Verizon Wireless® Network Maintenance Engineering. The cable assemblies include the plenum-certified SPP™ Series of low loss, low PIM…
TTI, Inc., the world’s leading specialist distributor of passive, connector, electromechanical and discrete components, is now offering device connectivity specialist Weidmüller’s OMNIMATE® technology in Europe, including OMNIMATE® Signal, OMNIMATE® Power and OMNIMATE® Housings. This wide product range is modular and flexible, suits diverse applications in many product sectors, and offers ease of design-in as well…
TE Connectivity (TE), a world leader in connectivity, announces the retention of qualification on the Qualified Products List (QPL) for its 150 degrees Celsius-rated SolderSleeve shield-grounding terminators to SAE-AS-83519/1 and /2. These shield terminators, S01 and S02 part numbers, have been designed to attach a ground lead to a cable shield to bring electrical disturbances…
Mergers always create some uncertainty in the supply chain. When two suppliers come together, such as NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) and Freescale Semiconductor, Ltd., it’s usually a positive for buyers. Instead of dealing with two vendors, purchasing is now dealing with one. The same is true for distribution partners – most of the time.…
San Carlos, Calif. — Alliance Memory recently announced that its 32M x 16 MT48LC32M16A2P-75: C (commercial temperature), 32M x 16 MT48LC32M16A2P-75 IT:C (industrial temperature), 64M x 8 MT48LC64M8A2P-75:C (commercial temperature), and 64M x 8 MT48LC64M8A2P-75 IT:C (industrial temperature) 512M synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) devices — which the company recently acquired from Micron Semiconductor the rights and license…
Washington — The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), representing U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing and design, today announced that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $28.5 billion for the month of January 2015, the industry’s highest-ever January total and an increase of 8.7 percent from January 2014 when sales were $26.3 billion. Global sales from January 2015 were 2 percent lower than the December 2014 total of $29.1…
Greenville, S.C. – AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer of passive components and interconnect solutions, has introduced its first applications-based catalog, the new High Temperature Solutions catalog, which provides engineers with detailed information about the various passive component solutions that AVX specifically designs, manufactures, and qualifies for exceptional performance in high temperature applications up to 250°C, including…