IPC announced today the April 2020 findings from its North American Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Statistical Program. The book-to-bill ratio stands at 1.19. Total North American PCB shipments in April 2020 were up 4.3 percent compared to the same month last year. Compared to the preceding month, April shipments fell 18.2 percent. PCB bookings in…
Mouser Electronics, Inc., the authorised global distributor with the newest semiconductors and electronic components, has signed a global distribution agreement with Trenz Electronic, manufacturers of industrial-grade multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC) system-on-modules (SoMs). With this deal, Mouser now distributes a selection of Trenz Electronic’s industrial-grade Xilinx FPGA-based MPSoC SoMs, which feature powerful switch-mode power supplies for all…
Allied Electronics & Automation, a global electronics and mechanical products distributor based in Fort Worth, has launched an effort to produce and donate personal protective equipment (PPE) for first responders in the local area. The project is part of a broader global effort by companies in the Electrocomponents plc Group to respond to the COVID-19…
Mouser Electronics, Inc., the authorised global distributor with the newest semiconductors and electronic components, announces a global distribution agreement with Toradex, a leader in embedded computing. Through the agreement, Mouser now offers Toradex’s Colibri and Apalis families of computer-on-modules (CoMs) based on NXP i.MX series applications processors. All Colibri and Apalis modules are pin compatible…
Digi-Key Electronics, a global electronic components distributor, announced that it has expanded its product portfolio by signing a U.S. distribution partnership with ICP DAS USA, providing Digi-Key customers with some of the widest selection of communication converters of any offering, including the conversion of CAN bus, BACnet, DeviceNet, EtherCAT and many other common protocols. This expansion…
It seems the only person who could beat Jeff Bezos to becoming the world’s first trillionaire would be someone with a crystal ball that can accurately predict the supply chain for the rest of 2020. The global crisis has everyone running, as demand forecasts, production schedules, and distribution planning have all gone out the window.…