Posting the highest year-over-year growth in 14 years, the global semiconductor industry grew 21.7 percent in 2017, reaching $429.1 billion, according to IHS Markit. Another milestone was Samsung toppling Intel as the market leader for the first time in 25 years. Samsung reported 53.6 percent growth in 2017, thanks to rising prices and tight supply of…
DetailsMaster Electronics, the 13th largest global distributor of electronic components, announces a global distribution agreement with CUI, Inc. CUI offers an extensive product portfolio; including power, interconnect, motion, audio, and thermal management technologies. Driven by Master’s innovative and industry disruptive marketing tactics and tenured sales team, coupled with CUI’s leading edge products and solutions, this…
DetailsFoxconn Interconnect Technology Limited (HKG: 6088), a subsidiary of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., and Belkin International, Inc. (Belkin®, Linksys®, Wemo®, Phyn® brands), jointly announced today the signing of a definitive agreement under which FIT agreed to acquire Belkin at US$866 million in cash, creating a global consumer electronics leader. Leveraging Belkin’s strength in research and development capabilities and consumer productschannel ,…
DetailsSager Electronics, a leading North American distributor of Interconnect, Power and Electromechanical components and provider of value-add solutions, today announced that additional thermal management products have been added to its specialized group, Sager Power Systems. “As an authorized distributor for many of the industry’s leading providers of thermal management solutions, Sager is committed to providing…
DetailsNordic Semiconductor today announced it has signed a new agreement with Avnet (NYSE: AVT), a leading global technology distributor, covering the distribution of Nordic’s Bluetooth® Low Energy (Bluetooth LE), ANT+, IEEE 802.15.4, and 2.4GHz proprietary ultra low power (ULP) wireless connectivity solutions in the Americas. Effective immediately, OEM customers across Europe, Asia Pacific, the U.S.,…
DetailsRFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for MECA Electronics microwave and millimeter-wave isolators. Optimized for excellent performance across K, Ku, and Ka bands, these 2 Watt isolators cover 18.0-26.5GHz, 27.0-31.0GHz & 26.5-40.0GHz. The MECA IK-29.000 epitomizes performance with typical insertion loss of 0.5dB and 20dB minimum isolation. Connectors are 2.92mm female in passivated stainless steel. Operating…
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Cost reduction, new products/market development, and managing risks continue to be the biggest priorities for procurement leaders, according to Deloitte’s global chief procurement officer (CPO) 2018 report. These leaders also are working to better align procurement and business priorities to deliver value by focusing on strategies such as consolidating spend, reducing total life cycle/ownership costs…
DetailsIPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries® announced today the January 2018 findings from its North American Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Statistical Program. Both sales and orders were up year-over-year in January. Due to continued strong order growth in January, the book-to-bill ratio climbed to a 12-year high of 1.16. Total North American PCB shipments in January…
DetailsResilinc, a global provider of supply chain resiliency solutions, today announced the availability of Resilinc CyberSCRM, an advanced cybersecurity risk monitoring and mitigation platform to protect enterprise supply chains, including indirect services suppliers, from cybersecurity threats. “When we looked at exposure to cyber threats in global enterprise supply chains, we found that these threats can…
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