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UPS® (NYSE:UPS) today announced three international facility expansions driven by growing demand from retail and high-tech customers. The moves add nearly 220,000 sq. ft. (about 20,000 sqm) to UPS’s global supply chain network. The newly expanded facilities are located in Krefeld, Germany; Butzbach (near Frankfurt am Main), Germany; and Venlo, Netherlands. UPS, which recently announced…
Tessera Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSRA) (“Tessera” or the “Company”) today announced that its subsidiary, Tessera, Inc., has entered into an agreement with Amkor Technology, Inc. (“Amkor”) to settle all pending litigation between Amkor and Tessera, Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, Amkor will pay Tessera a total of $155 million, comprised of sixteen equal quarterly…
Element14 now offers Coilcraft’s LPD Family of 1:1 coupled power inductors which combine excellent current handling, low DCR, and coupling coefficients as high as K ≥ 0.99 in a compact, low-profile package. With 1500 Vdc (1000 Vrms) isolation and a small package size, the LPD5030V Series of miniature transformers are ideal for use in high…
Global electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, the industry leader in electronic component selection, availability and delivery, today announced the addition of Adafruit’s board-level products to its portfolio. Adafruit, the popular online resource for designers using electronic components-, was recently ranked #11 in the top 20 USA manufacturing companies and #1 in New York City by…
Detroit, Mich. — Flextronics (NASDAQ: FLEX), is linking the high technology advances of Silicon Valley with the automotive industry in Detroit. At its newly established location adjacent to Detroit, Flextronics’ specialized automotive team is actively helping to further enable swift implementation of cutting edge smart, connected technologies and applications by collaborating with The Detroit Big Three and partnering with OEM…
Fremont, Calif. — UL Consumer Technology, a global leader of product safety testing and certification for over 100 years, announced today the launch of a comprehensive service that offers customized product validation, advisory, testing, risk mitigation, interoperability, and global market access services. The services will help to assist manufacturers in supplying consumers with safer and more reliable wearable products while…
New York, N.Y. – Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 73,000 customers, today announced Infor Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Managed Service to offer manufacturers a powerful yet economic solution to maintain operations. Infor EDI Managed Service is specifically developed to help solve growing customer demands, helping organizations meet challenges with greater…
Digi-Key Corp. posted solid revenue growth in 2014, cruising easily past the industry’s single-digit average and boosting the electronics company distributor’s annual revenue to record level on rising demand for its services from OEMs and engineers working on Internet of Things (IoT) products. The company also attributed the surge in 2014 sales to continued demand…
The advent of social networking has significantly altered our behavior as consumers but also professionals. The need to stay connected to a community is now firmly anchored. Riding this wave, Supplyeo, a new professional social network, arrives with the ambition to create the largest community of supply chain professionals. Launched nearly two years ago, the…
SEMI today announced details from the SEMI World Fab Forecast Report illuminating the state of the semiconductor manufacturing industry, coincident with convening SEMI’s Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS) in Half Moon Bay, Calif. Among the insights across the various segments, the changes in the DRAM (Dynamic Random-Access Memory) segment are an example of the significant shifts…