Bannockburn, Ill., USA, August 31, 2015 — IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries® announced today the July findings from its monthly North American Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Statistical Program. Year-over-year sales and order growth continued in July and the book-to-bill ratio strengthened to 1.09. Total North American PCB shipments increased 2.7 percent in July 2015 from July 2014.…
San Jose, Calif. — Neoconix, Inc. is pleased to announce that Samtec, Inc. has renewed their Neoconix PCBeam™ technology license agreement to continue their dual source arrangement on the Samtec Z-Ray® product line. This dual source arrangement allows Samtec to support new customers with an additional variety of fine pitch, high density array products including board-to-board and high speed…
Buyers can expect relatively stable pricing for passive components, including capacitors, resistors, and inductors, during the remainder of the year. Price erosion is expected in the three to five percent range in 2015. Lead times also remain steady in the six to eight week range with the exception of a few product areas such as…
The Electronics Representatives Association has announced that Walter E. Tobin has been named as the organization’s new Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President. Tobin is an electronics industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience in sales, marketing and executive/corporate management positions. For the last nine years, he was the corporate vice president…
TTI, Inc., a world leading specialist distributor of passive, connector, electromechanical and discrete components, now stocks Omron’s comprehensive G3VM range of MOSFET relays featuring various packages, different contact forms, switching capacities and functions in Europe. Combining the advantages of electromechanical and solid state technology, Omron’s MOSFET relays meet the requirements of many communication equipment, test…
3D NAND flash memory is one of the key segments of the electronics components market that appear poised to hit mainstream design and, hence, production in a few years if manufacturers can iron out obstacles related to production yield, new application opportunities as well as demand and supply at optimal pricing for suppliers and equipment…
The Aftermath of the Tianjin Explosions: A Global Supply Chain Impact Analysis—It’s Far Worse than You Think. Don‘t believe official media reports indicating that business and port operations will shortly return to normal. This event’s economic relevance and its repercussions on the global supply chain will be felt over the next few months and perhaps…
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH), one of the world’s largest manufacturers of discrete semiconductors and passive components, wishes to extend its heartfelt condolences to the Chinese people regarding the explosion, which occurred on August 12, 2015 in the port of Tianjin. Vishay owns and operates a manufacturing facility in Tianjin, which provides back-end packaging for some…
Automotive safety applications – driven by government regulations and consumer demand for enhanced safety – is one of the biggest drivers of sensor growth over the next several years. The automotive sensor market is forecast to reach about $13 billion by 2022, growing at an estimated 9.2 percent compound annual growth (CAGR), according to a…
Phoenix, Ariz. – Onlinecomponents.com recently launched their newly redesigned website. Dedicated to the belief that Onlinecomponents.com is quickly becoming one of the best ecommerce experiences for the procurement and engineering audience in the electronics industry, Onlinecomponents.com set this version’s strategy around improving the user experience. By implementing thousands of micro-improvements the team was able to…