The global industrial semiconductor industry reached $43.5 billion in 2016, up 3.8 percent year-over-year, thanks to broad-based demand across the industrial electronics equipment sector, according to IHS Markit. This growth has continued into 2017. While this is good news for industrial component suppliers, buyers will need to start closely monitoring lead times for a variety…
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Electrocomponents PLC has the potential to become a $10 billion enterprise within the next 10 years but to achieve this lofty goal, the U.K.-based distributor must venture outside the electronic components market and put down big stakes in the larger maintenance, repairs and operations (MRO) market. CEO Lindsley Ruth set the stage for Electrocomponents’ transformation…
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Buyers of server DRAM modules will likely face price hikes of three to eight percent in the third quarter of 2017, according to the latest data from DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce. The good news is the contract price increase won’t be nearly as high as in the first and second quarters of 2017, when tags…
DetailsThe global sensor hub market is forecast to reach $32.5 billion by 2023, growing at a CAGR of 18.9 percent, according to ReportsnReports. Sensor hub market likely to exhibit significant growth potential between 2017 and 2023 market is expected to be valued at USD 32.53 billion by 2023, growing at a CAGR of 18.9%. Sensor hub market…
DetailsBourns, Inc., a leading manufacturer and supplier of electronic components, today announced it has been named a 2017 Preferred Supplier award recipient by Flex. Flex is an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company known for designing and building “Intelligent Products for a Connected World™”. Flex’s procurement and supply chain employees selected Bourns as a preferred supplier…
DetailsSager Electronics, a leading North American distributor of Interconnect, Power and Electromechanical components, is now stocking Mallory Sonalert’s ZT Series of audible alarms with added visual component. This addition of an LED visual component to their popular new 22mm panel alarm series provides more options for users. This new ZT series of alarms allows for…
DetailsWPG Americas Inc. (WPGA) a subsidiary of WPG Holdings, the largest global electronic components distributor, announced today a new partnership with Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, a leading provider of customizable smart connectivity solutions. The addition of Lattice expands WPG Americas’ IoT product offering. “We are excited to offer Lattice’s smart connectivity solutions, providing more opportunities for our…
DetailsNextFlex®, America’s Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE) Manufacturing Institute, today announced that it has begun the ramp of its Technology Hub’s pilot manufacturing line with the installation of several state-of-the-art pieces of production equipment. The NextFlex Technology Hub, currently, the only single-source FHE processing production line in the US, will be used primarily by NextFlex and…
DetailsRare Earth Salts (´RES” or the “Company”), a leading materials technology company, today announced the successful commissioning of its first commercial separations unit for the production of low cost, separated and purified rare earth oxides. The Company expects to ramp up its production to reach a rate of 18 metric tons per month using its…
DetailsCMTL, (www.cmtlabs.com), (Computer Memory Test Labs), announced today that it is seeking resellers of Intel approved server and NUC products to populate a new ecommerce service that is in the process of being added to the CMTL website. The reseller product categories will include among others: systems, motherboards, memory, flash, processors and peripherals. The ecommerce…
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