Mouser Electronics, Inc. announces a global distribution agreement with MEMSIC Inc. MEMSIC is a world leader for the consumer electronics, communications, automotive, medical and industrial sensing sectors. Through the new agreement, Mouser will distribute MEMSIC micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors to customers worldwide. The MEMSIC product line enables mobility and the Internet of Things (IOT) by…
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Jeffrey Bezos has written a letter you need to read. Bezos and his company Amazon.com scare many in the electronics industry and beyond. From CEOs, down to product managers the industry is both surprised and frightened by how Amazon has savaged many markets in the general economy. The electronics supply chain is awed by the…
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William Amelio has been anything but quiet at Avnet Inc. but anyone who has a different thought will find out sometime in a few weeks when the new CEO unveils details of his transformational plans for the top-tier distributor. The company is already a radically different organization – having sold its technology solutions (TS) business…
DetailsECIA announces the 2017 participants in “Project Host,” a program that provides students and their faculty the opportunity to attend the industry’s premier meeting, EDS. Student Ambassadors are matched with volunteer ECIA member executives. This year’s participating ECIA member companies are Master Electronics, Crouzet North America, Digi-Key Electronics, Catalyst Sales, and Kruvand. A special thanks…
DetailsTTI, Inc., the leading authorized distributor of interconnect, passive, electromechanical and discrete components, today announced the promotion of Gary Wash to the newly created position of Corporate Director, Global Trade Compliance and Transportation. Wash has served as director of trade compliance for TTI for the past nine years. In making the announcement, Don Akery, Senior…
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Portions of the electronics industry are applauding a policy shift toward the so-called “conflict minerals” rule that requires publicly traded U.S. companies to disclose the use of tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold (3TG) sourced from war-torn regions of Africa. Acting Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Michael Piwowar has directed agency staff to reconsider how companies…
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With 17 out of 18 U.S. manufacturing industries expanding in March, domestic producers closed the first quarter of 2017 on a high note. Although the Institute for Supply Management’s leading index, the PMI, cooled a bit from February – a decrease of 0.5 percent to 57.2 — the industry expanded in March for the seventh consecutive…
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Kevin Sellers joined Avnet Inc. as chief marketing officer about 18 months ago after a 23-year stint at Intel Corp., one of the electronics industry’s most successful companies from a revenue and branding perspective. It’s no wonder therefore that some of Sellers’ experience at Intel would rub off on Avnet which today launched a global…
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Temperature measurement accuracy is an essential part of many electronics designs. This is especially true in consumer, industrial and automotive electronics applications where the functionality or efficiency of an entire system is often dependent on temperature-based variables. With recent advances in surface-mounted negative temperature coefficient (SMD NTC) thermistors, designers, engineers and purchasers – all involved…
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Avnet.com users woke up Monday to a freshly redesigned and completely overhauled website spotting a new corporate tagline, logo and color – green is in and red is out. These are all elements of a revamped promotional and global branding campaign heralding the fundamental reorganization and strategic business repositioning being carried out at one of…
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