The Newark electronics catalog – once known as the “Bible of the industry” — has made significant progress under parent Avnet Inc. and expects additional investment will boost its e-commerce capabilities and restore historically high profit margins. Newark was acquired in 1996 by the UK’s Premier Farnell group. The Newark and Farnell catalogs underwent a…
Driven by growing demand for application processors and other telecomm device sales into 5G smartphones, the pure play foundry market is on pace to expand by a strong 19% this year, after declining 1% in 2019. IC Insights forecasts 200 million 5G smartphone handsets will be shipped in 2020 (although some forecasts expect 250 million…
Raltron Electronics, a global leader in high performance frequency management components and antenna products, is pleased to announce the appointment of Redtree Solutions as its new manufacturer’s sales representative for France and Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg). Redtree will support Raltron’s entire product line including crystals, oscillators, VCXO, TCXO, OCXO, VCO, LTCC filters, antennas, and…
Strong demand for trade on the China-U.S. lanes, together with restricted capacity early this summer combined to send ocean rates to record highs. Despite China’s moves to stabilize rates, China-U.S. ocean rates climbed to new records, with West Coast rates approaching $4,000/FEU – nearly triple their level a year ago. Prices may have gone even…