LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Today, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne and IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a major research initiative, with several leading academic and corporate research organizations across Europe, to address the alarming growth of energy consumption by electronic devices, ranging from mobile phones to laptops to televisions to supercomputers. The research project, called Steeper, aims…
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After holding its breath for most of the year, the supply chain may be able to breathe a collective sigh of relief. Following two years of zero growth, iSuppli forecast that semiconductor industry growth would soften in 2011. If IT budgets for 2011 are expected to grow, the pull-through effect will benefit the supply chain,…
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GREENVILLE, S.C. — AVX Corporation (NYSE:AVX) AVX today reported preliminary unaudited results for the second quarter ended September 30, 2010. Highlights: • Revenue for the September 2010 quarter of $430.6 million increased 8.6% from the previous quarter and increased 38.7% from the second quarter of last year. • Gross Profit margin improved for the ninth…
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Novellus Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVLS) today reported operating results for its third quarter ended September 25, 2010. Net sales for the third quarter were $367.2 million, up $45.8 million or 14.3 percent from second quarter net sales of $321.4 million, and up $190.3 million or 107.6 percent from third quarter 2009…
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IRVINE, Calif. — Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM) today reported unaudited financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2010. Net revenue for the third quarter of 2010 was a record $1.806 billion. This represents an increase in net revenue of 12.6% compared with the $1.604 billion reported for the second quarter of 2010 and…
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MUNICH and HOUSTON — Supply Chain Council (SCC, www.supply-chain.org), a global not-for-profit management association, announced the winners of the 2010 Awards for Supply Chain Excellence at the Supply Chain World Europe conference in Munich this week. Winners included: “As this year’s winners of the Supply Chain Council Excellence awards have once again demonstrated, superior supply…
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Jack Robertson, a pioneering journalists who covered the evolution of the high-tech manufacturing industry for decades, has died. I could tell stories of Jack's exploits, but my colleague, Mark LaPedus, semiconductor editor at EE Times, has done a fine job chronicling the ace journalist's exploits, complete with comments from numerous ex-colleagues. Mark's report is available…
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As in the United States, European trade is largely heading east to China. According to data released earlier this month by the European Union’s statistical agency, Eurostat, the 27-nation euro-zone reported strong exports to China. The EU’s exports to China increased from €37 billion (about US$52 billion) in the first half of 2009 to €53…
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As long as OEMs have been outsourcing their non-core functions, someone with such areas of expertise has been willing to pick up the slack. More often than not, that slack has become a battleground for services providers — in the electronics supply chain, mainly distributors and EMS companies. Yesterday, Flextronics Global Services, a division of…
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SANTA ANA, Calif. — Demonstrating its thought leadership, Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) is pleased to announce it has been recognized by Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX), the world's leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, with the Cloud Visionary Partner of the Year Award. Presented at the 2010 Rackspace Partner Leadership Summit Awards…
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