In the first part of this blog, I focused on what companies can do to increase the benefits they get from attending industry shows such as the annual Electronics Distribution Show. In this concluding part, I address how social media is being used by everyone, including conference attendees to raise corporate visibility and advance the…
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High-tech companies continue to rank well in Garter Inc.'s Supply Chain Top 25, an annual listing rating companies' supply chain prowess based on financial results and the opinion of peers and analysts. {complink 379|Apple Inc.} held onto the No. 1 position for the fourth year in a row. {complink 1544|Dell Inc.} ranked second, followed by…
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Felix Zandman, founder and chairman of passives components vendor {complink 6199|Vishay Intertechnology Inc.}, faced great odds early in life. But he went on to achieve great things, not least of all founding and nurturing a $3 billion revenue company, thanks to his tenacious attitude. Zandman lost members of his family under Nazi Germany. He lived…
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POING/MUNICH,GERMANY — EBV Elektronik, an Avnet (NYSE: AVT) company and the leading specialist in EMEA semiconductor distribution, has announced the Caribou board as a development and evaluation platform for industrial communications. It is based on an OMAP L138 / AM1808 ARM® microprocessor from Texas Instruments, together with an Altera® Cyclone® III FPGA and analog interfaces…
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MALVERN, Pa. — Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (“Vishay”) (NYSE: VSH) announced today, with great sadness, the passing of its founder and Executive Chairman of the Board, Chief Technical Officer and Chief Business Development Officer, Dr. Felix Zandman. He was 83 years old. Dr. Zandman founded Vishay in 1962 and served as Chief Executive Officer of the…
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MIGDAL HAEMEK, ISRAEL — TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, announced today that it completed its previously announced acquisition of Micron Technology’s fabrication facility in Nishiwaki City, Hyogo, Japan. The acquisition nearly doubles TowerJazz’s current internal manufacturing capacity, cost-effectively increasing production by 60,000 wafers per month. The added capacity to serve the growing needs of…
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FORT WORTH, Texas — Electrocomponents plc, the operating company for Allied Electronics and RS Components, reports record sales and increased profit margins for the year ending March 31, 2011. Based in the UK, Electrocomponents operates in 32 countries around the globe; overall, the Group grew revenues by more than 20 percent and profits by more…
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A few days ago {complink 38|Acer Inc.} president Jim Wong, who runs the world's third-largest PC brand, created a minor kerfuffle when he told the Financial Times that July would prove a “stress test” for electronics supply chains. Wong's argument is based on the fact that the traditional slow sales season for electronics is March…
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Master Distributors, a leading distributor of electromechanical, interconnect and passive components, announces it is now stocking Crydom’s new Series of DIN rail-mounted AC and DC output solid state relay (SSR) assemblies, the DRS series of DIN rail sockets, and the new 3-Phase and AC Motor Reversing SSRs. The DRA Series features…
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In the tech world, coming late to the party can have near-fatal consequences for even the biggest names in the industry. Consumers and Wall Street no longer have time and patience for companies that stop innovating, lag too far behind market leaders, or have little ability to quickly correct course. The consequences of multiple missteps…
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