Brian Fuller, a journalist for 30 years, is editor-in-chief of Cadence, responsible for content creation and content marketing. He spent nearly 20 years at EE Times, where he held various positions including editor-in-chief and publisher. From 2011-13 he was involved in a groundbreaking industry project driving around North America in Chevy Volt, interviewing engineers and entrepreneurs as part of the Drive for Innovation program. He also served as editor-in-chief of EBN in early 2013.
My father, when sizing up global matters over a martini or two, used to say “the pendulum always swings back.” I think of that when we discuss the nature of outsourcing and offshoring today. For years, the pendulum swung to the side of the argument that embraced key benefits: Labor-cost reduction Proximity to emerging markets…
As the semiconductor industry has consolidated in the past 10 years, entrepreneurs have been forced to think differently about how to fund a great new idea. Venture capitalists, as we know, have cooled on the industry's ROI, to say the least! But, not surprisingly, at that end of the design and supply chain, novel approaches…
Electronics contract manufacturers will see revenues grow about 4.5 percent in 2013 to $404.5 billion, according to the latest data from market researcher IHS. The good news is that's growth, the fourth straight year of it since the depths of the recession in 2009, when the number nestled into the trough was $260.5 billion. But…
Sometimes, you want to pull your hair out. Government investigators in both the United States and Japan have been furiously trying to figure out what caused a fire aboard a JAL Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Early in the investigation, officials focused on the charred battery and then on the battery's auxiliary power unit (APU). The APU,…