IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries® announced today the July findings from its monthly North American Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Statistical Program. Sales and order growth both continued trending upward. Sales and Orders Improving Total North American PCB shipments decreased 1.5 percent in July 2013 from July 2012, and bookings increased 10.2 percent year over year.…
DetailsWashington, D.C. − Global sales of semiconductors reached $25.53 billion in July 2013, up 5.1 percent over the previous July, marking the highest sales total in 2013, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. Global sales in July were 2.6 percent higher than the previous month’s total of $24.88 billion, and up for the fifth straight…
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One of the most effective means of communication is by means of an illustration. If that illustration contains dimensional data and design characteristics that predict what a future product may look like, then the illustration can be referred to as a concept drawing. A concept drawing does not contain critical parametric or component values because…
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In an email statement on Sept. 12, Hynix reiterates that the line not effected by the fire at the Wuxi fab resumed operations on Sept. 7. The memory maker also noted that the line impacted by the fire is still undergoing a safety inspection with plans to “complete inspections and full restoration of the air ventilation system and facilities in order to resume production in October.” Hynix further noted that it “will make every effort to ramp up operations in stages in order to fully recover normalized production level in November.
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Look around at any large datacenter, and you're likely to see hundreds, even thousands of X86-based servers from big-name OEMs, including Hewlett-Packard and Dell. In fact, with the PC market falling apart, these OEMs, as well as Intel itself, are looking to the server market as a rare bright spot. They shouldn't count on it.…
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Microsoft purchased Nokia's mobile phone business for 5.5 billion euros (US $7.2 billion), ending a chapter of uncertainty and expectation in Nokia's 148 years of uninterrupted trajectory of innovation, reinvention, and change. Strong supply chain history A quick look through Nokia's history since 1865 shows 148 years of innovation and change. As the company closes…
DetailsMouser Electronics, Inc., a leading engineering resource and a global distributor of semiconductors and electronic components, today announced the new opening of a customer service center situated in Penang, Malaysia. This new office now makes 20 locations worldwide and seven locations in the APAC region for the global design-fulfillment distributor. Mouser’s local Penang office serves…
DetailsWind River®, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, has entered into a distribution agreement with Avnet Embedded, a division of Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT). Under the terms of the agreement, Avnet Embedded will market, distribute, and provide sales and product support for the full Wind River portfolio of…
DetailsBuyers who are purchasing magnetic components can expect stable lead times and pricing throughout the remainder of the year. At least that is the consensus of inductor and transformer suppliers that I’ve chatted with over the past few weeks. Although a few inductor suppliers noted rising demand over the past quarter, which has resulted in…
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