Future Electronics has underlined the strength of its technical service to embedded design engineers with the announcement today that it has become the first ARM Accreditation Corporate Partner. This is the result of Future Electronics’ commitment to adopt the ARM Accredited Engineer (AAE) program worldwide throughout the company, with a particular focus on the ARM…
DetailsDachser USA continues to experience growth in the Midwest and has expanded its operations in Chicago to meet increasing demand. A newly expanded warehouse facility will function as a hub for Dachser in the Midwest providing cross-docking, warehouse storage, warehouse distribution, and buildup and breakdown of air and ocean containers. “Our ultimate goal is to…
DetailsElectronics companies are among some of the largest publically traded businesses in the world; yet there is still a healthy population of companies with revenue of $500 million or less. One of the ways these companies intend to grow is through merger and acquisition (M&A), a trend that is still popular in the electronics industry.…
DetailsMolex Incorporated has expanded access to its free Molex App designed for Apple and Android devices. Providing mobile users with information on over 90 different Molex product families, the Molex App allows tablet and now smartphone users to view product information, search products, view literature and view videos without being online. App users with access…
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With speed and cost effectiveness as top priorities, mobile applications and devices are quickly becoming the tools of choice for supply chain managers, as well as logistics and transportation pros. “If I think about the changes in the supply chain over the last several years, it's gone from begin slow, manual, and unresponsive to one…
DetailsWould you, as head of supply chain, purchasing, manufacturing or the CEO of an electronics manufacturing company, agree to a shared supply chain? If you said “No” and work at a company that outsources any of the supply chain functions – components sourcing, production, logistics and repairs and warranty fulfillment – you most likely are…
DetailsAvnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), will host a series of SpeedWay Design Workshops™, featuring Microsemi Corporation’s (NASDAQ: MSCC) new, low-power, cost-optimized IGLOO®2 FPGAs. The workshops, taught by Avnet technical experts, kick off Feb. 25 in San Jose, Calif., and will be held in 26 cities throughout North America.…
DetailsKyocera Corporation (NYSE:KYO) (TOKYO:6971) today announced that construction has been completed on the Kyocera Group’s first manufacturing plant in India, and that a completion ceremony was held on February 17 to mark the start of trial operations at “KYOCERA CTC Precision Tools Private Limited*.” The establishment of Kyocera CTC Precision Tools is intended to strengthen…
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The evolution of the electronics industry is endlessly fascinating. Companies are born, grow up, raise children (spinoffs), die (bankruptcy or acquisition), and then often are reincarnated. A recently proposed multibillion-dollar marriage of two chip companies is a classic example. In December, Avago Technologies Ltd. announced it would acquire LSI Corp. for $6.6 billion. Each of…
DetailsIn a move to help more customers quickly find and purchase frequency control devices, Arrow Electronics, Inc. has implemented Ecliptek’s Data Download on Arrow’s product lifecycle platform available via arrow.com. This gives buyers of frequency control devices, including crystals, quartz oscillators, and MEMS oscillators, access to more than 500,000 products. Results are based on either…
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