LONDON — Following the recent terrible events in Japan, and the uncertain impact on the electronics supply chain element14 has created a dedicated online space at www.element14.com/japanemergency. By creating this area of the community, element14 hopes that it will fulfil a clear need by acting as a central repository for the whole electronics industry on…
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Financial Highlights Sales momentum from the prior quarter has continued as we delivered our highest fourth quarter sales for more than 10 years. Group sales grew 13.9% year on year and 2.0% sequentially on the prior quarter, leading to full year sales growth of 21.4%. Fourth quarter Group operating profit grew 31.6% year on year…
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UNTERPREMSTAETTEN, Austria — austriamicrosystems (SIX: AMS) is shocked by the recent tragic events in Japan and extends its deepest sympathies to those affected and their families. All austriamicrosystems employees in Japan and their families are safe and accounted for. austriamicrosystems has neither production activities nor subcontractors in Japan. All our wafer production, test and assembly…
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Few companies can shake off quite as easily the big wallop {complink 5703|Texas Instruments Inc.} is receiving from {complink 3847|Nokia Corp.} following the decision to phase out Symbian, its smartphone operating system, replacing this with the Windows OS from {complink 3426|Microsoft Corp.}. That decision will cost TI, the sole supplier of chips for Symbian-based product,…
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Apple reduced the thickness and weight of the iPad 2 by trimming the dimensions of several key components, most notably the battery
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I'm sure there's no one who isn't shocked and filled with deep sympathy for the people of Japan, in the wake of that nation's horrific earthquake and tsunami. It seemed to erupt as one of those “perfect storms”: a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 12-foot-high walls of water born out of a tsunami that traveled halfway…
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I’ve been mulling over something that came up at the 2011 World Mobile Congress: mobile health, its practical applications, the high-tech equipment required to support it, and the long-term view of what’s possible. With Japan’s earthquake and tsunami still very much in the news, conversations about mobile health and mobile health equipment seem at once…
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Global GEM penetration in the notebook segment in 2011 will rise by a dramatic 11 percentage points from 39 percent in 2010
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MELVILLE, N.Y. — Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW) has been named National Semiconductor's 2010 Distributor of the Year for the Americas. National Semiconductor recognized Arrow for consistently driving demand-creation initiatives throughout the Americas region. “Arrow has demonstrated outstanding initiative and creativity in support of National Semiconductor, from the executive team to branch-level management and sales,” said…
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Still wondering why high-tech and electronics equipment makers, component suppliers, and contract manufacturers are so gung ho about China? Try this: Over a five-year period, {complink 1082|China Mobile Ltd.}, the world's biggest telecommunication service provider in terms of subscribers, will put almost US$100 billion into capital expenditure. This year alone, the company expects to increase…
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