SMYRNA, Ga. — Murata Electronics North America, Inc. and its parent company Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (TSE/OSE: 6981), the world's number one supplier of passive electronic components, announced today that it has closed the deal to acquire RF Monolithics, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as “RFM”). The cash transaction paid the holders of RFM common shares…
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Montreal, Canada — Future Electronics, a global leading distributor of electronic components, is pleased to announce immediate engineering samples availability of CEL’s new MeshConnect™ EM357 Mini Modules for 802.15.4/ZigBee wireless applications. Building on its extensive MeshConnect family of modules, the new mini footprint modules encompass the smallest footprint of all Ember-based modules available today running…
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW) announced that the company has completed its previously announced acquisition of the ALTIMATE Group (“ALTIMATE”), a subsidiary of DCC plc. ALTIMATE is a European value-added distributor of enterprise and midrange computing products, services, and solutions. Headquartered in Vélizy-Villacoublay, France, ALTIMATE has approximately 250 employees. The company’s sales for…
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US manufacturing activity has slowed down for the first time in three years, fueling concerns that global economic growth has stalled. The Institute of Supply Management said its PMI, an index of manufacturing growth, fell to 49.7 percent in June from 53.5 percent in May. (A score above 50 indicates growth, and a score below…
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The answer to the question in the headline, it turns out, is many. So many, in fact, that the consensus is to just give up. Your system is vulnerable. Someone, somewhere, can get into your system as you're reading this, turn on your printer, turn on your camera, snap a picture of you, draw a…
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This September, the US government is expected to start issuing regulations to carry out the anti-counterfeiting provision in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Is the industry ready? If the presentations at a two-day symposium on counterfeit electronics at the University of Maryland in College Park are any indication, the answer is “maybe.” (See:…
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These days the semiconductor industry seems to have a conference every week, but two that stand out in the consumer arena are the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas and the {complink 2134|Freescale Semiconductor Inc.} Technology Forum (FTF) in San Antonio. I go to CES almost every year, and it was very frustrating this…
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The first time I saw the Internet displayed was in 1995 at a Hamilton-Avnet open house for customers in the Boston area. Tom Thorsen, vice president of marketing and communications, showed me the ropes. He described an exciting method to communicate and sell products. And he was right. Remembering that now, the Internet kind of…
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It was no surprise that {complink 4644|Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM)} reported a loss for its first fiscal quarter of 2013. What did surprise analysts was RIM's announcement that its next product, the BlackBerry 10, will be delayed until next year. RIM announced on Thursday revenue of $2.8 billion for the quarter, down from $4.2…
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International growth opportunities continue to abound for high-tech companies. Looking at the mobile/smartphone category alone, new research by the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that more than half of US mobile users own smartphones. At the same time, smartphone usage is also rising in other regions, particularly in Europe. According to the Pew…
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