Intel, Samsung, TSMC and Qualcomm all maintained their top leadership positions in semiconductor sales in 2013, according to a new report from IC Insights. However, the biggest growth leaders were SK Hynix, MediaTek, Micron and Qualcomm, each tallying greater than 30 percent growth year-over-year. In a preview of its top 50 semiconductor supplier ranking and…
DetailsArrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW) announced today that its Web-based product life cycle services platform is named to the just-released 2014 InformationWeek Elite 100. The InformationWeek Elite 100 spotlights the most innovative users of information technology. The theme of this year’s rankings is digital business, including customer-focused technologies. Powered by one of the industry’s most comprehensive…
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As smart technologies proliferate in the modern world, the industry is experiencing a widening gap between coming up with ideas and having the ability to execute them. “If we look at product innovation across the electronics industry and across all markets, we see trend where complexity of product design goes through the roof,” Dr. Erik…
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In some circumstances – political leadership, for example – long-term stability is a good thing. In the interconnect, passive and electromechanical (IP&E) market, a little upward or even downward momentum would be a welcome change for many companies in the electronics supply chain. “From the leadtime perspective, there has been very little change [from 2013],”…
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Gartner, Inc. forecasts that a 30-fold increase in Internet-connected physical devices by 2020 will significantly alter supply chain leader information access and cyber-risk exposure.
DetailsMicrochip Technology Incorporated (NASDAQ: MCHP) (“Microchip”) and Supertex, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUPX) (“Supertex“) today announced that Microchip has completed its previously announced acquisition of Supertex following approval of the transaction by Supertex shareholders at Supertex’s special meeting of shareholders held today. Approximately 98.4% of the Supertex shares that voted were voted in favor of the merger…
DetailsAs the computing industry landscape undergoes rapid transformation, Intel Corporation CEO Brian Krzanich today outlined the company’s plans to build upon its nearly 30-year history in China, and collaborate with the growing technology ecosystem, particularly in Shenzhen, to accelerate new innovation and reshape the computing industry. During his keynote, Krzanich discussed how Intel and the…
DetailsIntegrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT®) (NASDAQ: IDTI), the Analog and Digital Company™ delivering essential mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, today announced mass production of its DDR4 chipset (including register, data buffer, and thermal sensor) that is compliant to the JEDEC 1.0 specifications for use in DDR4 registered dual in-line memory modules (RDIMMs) and load-reduced dual in-line memory…
DetailsIPC – Association Connecting Electronics Industries® and the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) will host a series of seminars on “Critical and Emerging Environmental Product Requirements” this May. The seminars, to be held in the Boston, Silicon Valley, Phoenix, and Chicago areas, will feature well-known United Kingdom (U.K.) regulators, Steve Andrews and Chris Smith. Keynote speakers…
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It's the trend that seemed unthinkable only a decade or so ago: American companies bringing business back from abroad. Although onshoring so far has resulted in a trickle rather than a tidal wave of new jobs, the fact it is happening at all has generated hopes of a manufacturing renaissance in the United States. Over…
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