Innovation is about a lot of different things. Partly it's about flexible thinking, being creative. Partly it's about taking risk. One thing that often gets overlooked in innovation is raw spending power. If you put money into R&D, the odds are that you are going to be a little bit more innovative than the next…
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We've written a lot about the quickening pace of innovation in automotive electronics design. And you'll recall the centerpiece of the first part of the Drive for Innovation was an all-electric Chevy Volt, which took us around North America. If you're in automotive electronics design, you're no doubt working on a very important and very…
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A key finding of a new survey of 545 procurement executives by the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) and BravoSolution reveals that only 20 percent of companies significantly reduced costs in 2013.
DetailsIPC’s Government Relations and Environmental Policy office has moved to the heart of Washington, D.C. Its new address, 1331 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, is just blocks from both the White House and Capitol Hill, and near the offices of a number of IPC’s largest OEM (original equipment manufacturer) members. The move from Arlington, Va., dramatically raises…
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With a few notable exceptions, lead times and prices in electronics components have stabilized since December, according to Avnet Electronics Marketing’s Market & Technology Trends report for the month of January. In discrete semiconductors, logic and memory products, lead times have and prices have stabilized. In December, both were showing some upward momentum. In the…
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BRACKNELL, UK – Avnet Services, the dedicated services business of Avnet Technology Solutions, and part of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), has today announced it has become an official Veeam Authorized Education Centre (VMAEC). Through this collaboration with Veeam® Software, innovative provider of backup, replication and virtualization management solutions for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, Avnet…
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THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. – January 13, 2014 — Global electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, the industry leader in electronic component selection, availability and delivery, today announced NXP's support of increasing production-level quantities of its semiconductor line. Responding to increasing customer demand, NXP joins a growing number of component suppliers seeking a next-generation distributor, offering…
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MANSFIELD, Texas — Mouser Electronics, Inc. is the first to stock and ship the new flexible magnetic shielding sheets from Würth Electronics. Würth Flexible Ferrite Sheets can be applied to any surface to protect sensitive equipment from magnetic interference by keeping magnetic fields where they belong. The Würth WE-FSFS Flexible Sintered Ferrite Sheet available from…
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PHOENIX — As the calendar turns from business management planning to implementation and execution for 2014, global technology distributor Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT) offers insights into trends that will influence the global supply chain in the new year and beyond. With a supply chain ecosystem spanning more than 300 franchised suppliers and 80 countries, Avnet…
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Tom Hudak, who recently took the reins of Chicago-based Newark element14, has three goals for the high-service distributor. He wants Newark element14 to be a great company to do business with, invest in, and work for. To meet these objectives, Hudak is putting plans in place to meet specific goals and metrics that will measure the…
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