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Fairchild (Nasdaq:FCS), a leading global supplier of power semiconductors, announced management changes that streamline the company’s reporting structure. Fairchild has attracted the top talent in the industry to build an outstanding operations leadership team. Today the company announced that this team will report directly to Mark Thompson, Fairchild’s chairman and CEO. Mr. Thompson will also…
Chicago, Ill. – element14, the world’s largest online community for electronic design engineers and hobbyists, was named a silver winner in Best Community Development at the 2014 Digital Impact Awards in London. The annual event recognizes the world’s best corporate digital strategy and marketing campaigns, and element14 earned top honors for supporting its global electronics distribution business via…
Oster Bay, N.Y. – Technology can either be a differentiating factor that helps businesses be successful or it can be something that contributes to a company’s downfall. Technology adoption and usage can help to increase efficiency, increase stickiness, reduce wastage, improve product development, improve service, and improve time to market. Technology is at the heart…
San Carols, Calif. — Alliance Memory today announced that Gregory Miller has joined the company as its director of sales. In his new role, Miller will lead sales efforts for the company and serve as the worldwide sales account manager for Alliance Memory’s customer Jabil — a leading supply chain management and electronic manufacturing partner —…
Burlingame, Calif. — The quest to create and monetize human data, combined with the proliferation of machine intelligence and devices that sense, track and measure, is presenting unprecedented opportunities and threats to the $738 billion information industry, according to Outsell, Inc. The research and advisory firm released its 2015 Information Industry Outlook Report, “Sensored World, Sensible Choices,” to…
RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the global distributor for engineers, is now stocking the new and improved Raspberry Pi Model A+, which combines enhanced value and ease of use with smaller size and lower power consumption for applications such as industrial controls, remote monitors, and multimedia devices. The Raspberry Pi…
China’s appetite for electronics continues to grow in spite of some recent softness in its manufacturing sector. As of this year, nearly 4.789 billion DRAM chips and 3.518 billion NAND Flash chips from the 2Gb category have been consumed in China, accounting for 19.2 percent and 20.6 percent, respectively, of the world’s total DRAM and…
FCI’s new cost-effective Minitek Pwr 3.0 and Minitek Pwr 4.2 wire-to-wire and wire-to-board connectors can now be ordered from TTI, Inc., the world’s leading specialist distributor of passive, connector, electromechanical and discrete components. Minitek Pwr 3.0 connectors are designed for power applications with a current rating of up to 5A per circuit. They are available…
Element14 has today announced a new global agreement with Altium, a leading supplier of PCB design software solutions, to distribute CircuitStudio through the recently launched element14 Design Center. This partnership will be a cornerstone of phase two of the element14 Design Center, which will incorporate a software store allowing customers to buy and receive licences…
TTI, Inc. the leading authorized, specialty distributor of IP&E components, congratulates TTI Vice President Total Quality, Kevin Sink, on having received an ECIA Distinguished Service Award. ECIA annual honors members of the organization who have devoted their time and resources to advance the association and the industry. Sink was selected to join this elite group…