Mouser Stocks TI C2000 Delfino MCU LaunchPad

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Mouser Electronics, Inc. is now stocking the C2000™ Delfino™ F28377S LaunchPad™ evaluation kit from Texas Instruments (TI). This new TI LaunchPad is an easy-to-use, rapid-prototyping kit for TI’s C2000 Delfino F2837xS portfolio of microcontrollers and offers 200 MHz of 32-bit floating-point performance, newly integrated accelerators, as well as high-integrity analog and control peripherals. The LaunchPad kit is compatible with TI BoosterPack™ plug-in…

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GreenPeak, Dusun Partner on Smart Parking

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Utrecht, The Netherlands – GreenPeak Technologies, the leading low power RF semiconductor company, and Dusun Electron Ltd, a rapidly growing electronic company focusing on development of wireless internet technology and pioneering the Internet of Things (IoT) industry in China, today announced their partnership with the launch of their first Smart City assisted parking application that addresses the growing parking problems in…

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Infor Enhances Supply Chain Forecasting

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New York, N.Y. – Infor, the industry cloud company, today announced Infor Demand+, a new application designed to help simplify and accelerate supply chain forecasting processes. Infor’s next-generation demand planning application leverages a modern intuitive planning experience combined with the latest Infor technology. Infor Demand+ is designed to help provide a more comprehensive picture of future…

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TTI Adds Molex Mini50 Connector System

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The new Molex Mini50™ Unsealed Connector System is now available in Europe at TTI, Inc., a world leading specialist distributor of passive, connector, electromechanical and discrete components. Designed to meet the demand for smaller interconnects from car manufacturers, the Molex Mini50 has smaller terminals to fit more signals into vehicle interiors and delivers 50% space…

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Conflict Minerals Rule: An Exercise in Futility?

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Electronic and paper documentations showing efforts by OEMs and component vendors to comply with the Conflict Minerals Rule are piling up at high-tech companies worldwide even as a courtroom battle rages over the legality of the legislation, according to interview sources. Although a Federal Court has ruled that a portion of the law violates manufacturers’…

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Apple Shortchanged Everyone on iPhone Memory

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The design decisions of mega-OEMs like Apple Inc. can impact everyone in the electronics industry supply chain. Apple missed an opportunity to better serve its customers and suppliers when it did not increase the storage capacity of its entry-level smartphones in the latest update announced this week. Leaving the basic iPhone 6S and 6S-Plus with…

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SIA, SRC Call for Increased Research Investments

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Leaders in the tech industry and academia, led by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), are calling out the industry to make increased research investments to help boost tech leadership in the U.S. as well as to advance new transformative technologies including the Internet of Things (IoT). A new study released…

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Buyers’ Scarcest Commodity? Time

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Procurement specialists have to focus on a lot of issues strategic to their organizations. But what is the problem that most bedevils buyers themselves? Time management. PrimeAdvantage, a buying consortium of small and midsize manufacturers, found time was the scarcest commodity among respondents to its 2015 survey. Because of  time limitations, 63 percent of respondents said…

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Schneider Electric Opens New Mfg Facility

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Palatine, Ill. — Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management and automation, today announced the grand opening of its new manufacturing location in Livermore, California. The facility will serve as a West Coast hub for the U.S. Services team, offering improved customer service for Schneider Electric’s local customers while also supporting the production of Schneider…

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