PHOENIX — Avnet (NYSE:AVT), via Avnet Velocity, the global supply chain services arm of Avnet EM, headquartered in Phoenix, AZ, announced today that Wi2Wi and Avnet have extended their partnership to include inbound Supply Chain and Logistics for Wi2Wi’s component consumption. “Partnering with Avnet to meet our supply chain and logistics needs further strengthens Wi2Wi…
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Stymied by a government crackdown, China’s gray-market cell phone shipments are expected to expand in 2011 at a slower pace
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Future Electronics, today announced a global distribution agreement with Redpine Signals, Inc., for Redpine’s broad portfolio of wireless chipsets, modules and development kits. Future will distribute Redpine Signals’ complete portfolio of low-power, high-performance IEEE 802.11abgn chipsets and modules that address multiple market segments including industrial, consumer electronics, medical, mobile, PC, smart…
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MELVILLE, N.Y. — Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW) announced that Andrew C. Kerin, executive vice president of Aramark Corporation and group president of its food, facility and hospitality services segment, and Philip K. Asherman, president and chief executive officer of Chicago Bridge & Iron Company, have been appointed to the company's board of directors. The addition…
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — SiliconExpert Technologies, a leading provider of electronic component management tools, announced today the release of new inventory pricing and lead-time data to its advanced suite of tools. The new inventory data features enable engineers and buyers to make informed component selection decisions (http://www.siliconexpert.com/CMOMFX/product_partsearch.html). With pricing information integrated into SiliconExpert's database of…
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Reading signals from both suppliers and customers is often a matter of survival in the electronics distribution channel. {complink 577|Avnet Inc.}, which has more than 600 suppliers and hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide, sees no reason to adjust its forecast that the electronics supply chain is in for a period of sustained growth. “As…
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FORT WORTH, Texas — It’s the holiday season and to celebrate TTI, Inc. is inviting its customers, suppliers and electronics industry employees to play its new, on-line holiday trivia game launched this week that features The Specialist, the new company spokesperson recently selected from The Big Job Campaign. If you think you know Doctor No’s…
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Sometimes even a stalemate qualifies for a hearty toast. So, cheers to microprocessor rivals {complink 103|Advanced Micro Devices} and {complink 2657|Intel Corp.} for not yielding much ground in their battle for market share during the third quarter. Sales of microprocessors surged 23 percent on a year-over-year basis in the quarter, but neither of the two…
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A subplot in the ongoing WikiLeaks saga involves hackers targeting attacks against companies, governments, and politicians they deem hostile to the Website. Hackers in the other camp are also attacking WikiLeaks because they consider the release of hundreds of thousands of classified communications and thousands of diplomatic cables an act of war against the United…
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Research firm Future Horizons held its annual review and forecast for the semiconductor industry on Tuesday, Dec. 14, in London and predicted the market will grow 6 percent or more in 2011, building on a 34 percent expansion in 2010. However, Malcolm Penn, chairman and CEO of the UK-based company, was more concerned about certain…
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