The Newark electronics catalog – once known as the “Bible of the industry” — has made significant progress under parent Avnet Inc. and expects additional investment will boost its e-commerce capabilities and restore historically high profit margins. Newark was acquired in 1996 by the UK’s Premier Farnell group. The Newark and Farnell catalogs underwent a…
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Driven by growing demand for application processors and other telecomm device sales into 5G smartphones, the pure play foundry market is on pace to expand by a strong 19% this year, after declining 1% in 2019. IC Insights forecasts 200 million 5G smartphone handsets will be shipped in 2020 (although some forecasts expect 250 million…
DetailsRaltron Electronics, a global leader in high performance frequency management components and antenna products, is pleased to announce the appointment of Redtree Solutions as its new manufacturer’s sales representative for France and Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg). Redtree will support Raltron’s entire product line including crystals, oscillators, VCXO, TCXO, OCXO, VCO, LTCC filters, antennas, and…
DetailsStrong demand for trade on the China-U.S. lanes, together with restricted capacity early this summer combined to send ocean rates to record highs. Despite China’s moves to stabilize rates, China-U.S. ocean rates climbed to new records, with West Coast rates approaching $4,000/FEU – nearly triple their level a year ago. Prices may have gone even…
DetailsMouser Electronics, Inc., the industry’s leading New Product Introduction (NPI) distributor with the widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components, announces a global distribution agreement with Tianma, a leading manufacturer of small- to medium-sized industrial-grade display solutions. Tianma provides leading technology and quality products to the consumer and professional display industries for use in end-designs such…
DetailsDigi-Key Electronics, who offers the world’s largest selection of electronic components in stock for immediate shipment, announced that it has partnered with Machinechat to deliver the industry’s most affordable and easy-to-use IoT data management solution to accelerate IoT development and deployments. Machinechat’s JEDI One is an all-in-one software application for IoT developers and solution architects to provision…
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The events of 2020 have shaken the very pillars of global supply chain and manufacturing organizations. The effects have been widespread and costly, but they have also revealed the need for us to revisit and rethink our approach to sourcing and procurement. While strategic sourcing has been a known method since the first 8-step model…
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After nearly two months of negotiations and press reports that a blockbuster deal was in the works, Nvidia this week announced a $40 billion agreement to buy ARM—the leading supplier of processor intellectual property (IP)—from financially struggling SoftBank in Japan. If approved, the deal would be the largest semiconductor acquisition in history, provided the additional…
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Disasters have a way of elevating procurement operations to saviors of the day, week or month. But once a crisis has passed, purchasing reverts back to its identity as a corporate cost center. Covid-19 could strengthen purchasing’s position as a corporate risk-management resource. The pandemic has raised the supply chain to a topic of national…
DetailsIEC Electronics Corp. (Nasdaq: IEC) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase an 86,000 square foot facility in Rochester, NY. The new facility is expected to provide additional capacity and more importantly, access to a larger pool of qualified resources to support future organic growth. Jeffrey T. Schlarbaum, President and CEO…
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