TTI, Inc., a world leading specialist distributor of electronic components, has named this year’s winners in its Supplier Excellence Awards programme, acknowledged across the industry as a rigorously-audited and highly sought-after recognition of quality performance. Throughout the year, TTI measures performance against specific actions – including on-time delivery, administrative quality, operations and business systems…
DetailsNew Yorker Electronics has released the new Vishay Dale IHXL-2000VZ-5A Very High-Current Through-Hole Inductor. The new Vishay IHXL technology combines the metal composite construction of a pressed metal powder with an insulating binder which allows for high saturation magnetization and high field strength – so it handles high transient current spikes without saturation. A Vishay…
DetailsSymmetry Electronics, a leading global distributor of wireless and video technologies, has moved its inventory warehouse from Los Angeles, CA to Fort Worth, TX. to consolidate distribution operations with the TTI family of companies. The move allows Symmetry to better accommodate customers with expanded inventory and improved warehouse capacity. Symmetry is excited to share TTI’s…
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Millennials want to make a difference … that’s the conventional wisdom about the workers taking their place in the high-tech industry currently. It’s more than just a wish in some cases. There are many shining stars bringing skills and attitudes to bear early in their supply chain careers in ways that make huge and measurable…
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Purchasing managers for the manufacturing industries in the U.S. expect growth will continue throughout the remainder of 2018. Sixty-two percent of the respondents to the Institute For Supply Management’s Semiannual Economic Forecast expect their revenue in 2018 will be 11.6 percent higher than in 2017; the industry will average 6.6 percent growth. In fact, every…
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The electronics industry has tried a number of mechanisms to prevent counterfeit ICs and other components from entering the supply chain. Unfortunately, counterfeits remain all too common. The U.S. Department of Justice announced it has charged distributor PRB Logics Corp. of Orange County, California, with the sale of counterfeit components. The counterfeit ICs could have been…
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For decades, U.S.-based electronic component distributors’ global growth strategy was acquisition. Beginning with the EU, American distributors acquired foreign competitors to establish themselves in a geographic market. The same is true for Asia-Pacific, and acquisitions there will likely continue. For foreign distributors entering the Americas the trend has been different. While there have been acquisitions—by…
DetailsArrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW) today reported first-quarter 2018 sales of $6.88 billion, an increase of 20 percent from sales of $5.74 billion in the first quarter of 2017. First-quarter net income of $139 million, or $1.56 per share on a diluted basis, compared with net income of $115 million, or $1.27 per share on a…
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The printed circuit board (PCB) industry has experienced rapid growth in recent times and studies show that predictions for the future are equally as optimistic. What is the key to this growth and what is driving it? Part of the reason is printed circuit boards are a building block for everything electronic. PCBs are used…
DetailsConsumers today filed a class-action lawsuit against the three largest manufacturers of dynamic random access memory (DRAM), stating they illegally agreed to raise prices of DRAM, a critical component of smartphones, laptops and other electronics, therefore pushing price increases onto consumers who purchased devices containing DRAM, according to Hagens Berman. Did you purchase a smartphone or…
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