This past financial quarter has driven home the adage that business concentration among a few large customers has its downside. For example, although Apple Inc. sold almost 48 billion iPhones in Q2, many of its suppliers – according to CNN and others – were “getting crushed:” Just look at Cirrus Logic (CRUS), which makes micro chips…
DetailsApple recently caused a flurry of excitement due to its recent announcement that HomeKit—a framework for communicating with accessories via smartphone—will soon be able to control a wide range of connected devices such as motion sensors, home security systems and carbon dioxide monitors. Throughout the next 10 years more than 50 billion Internet-connected devices will…
DetailsLyon, France – The insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) device market is forecast to reach $6.2 billion in 2020, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10 percent between 2014 and 2020, bolstered by the electric vehicle market, according to Yole Développement (Yole). By 2020, Yole expects electric vehicles to account for 50 percent…
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In high-tech “disruptive” is a good thing. Disruption was the driving force behind the majority of the high-technology mergers and acquisitions in the first half of 2015, with acceleration in deal-making during Q2. Corporate technology buyers pushed 2Q15 deals to a record $127.2 billon, which is higher than any quarter since 2000 and up 65…
DetailsArrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW) today reported second-quarter 2015 net income of $123.9 million, or $1.28 per share on a diluted basis, compared with net income of $127.9 million, or $1.27 per share on a diluted basis, in the second quarter of 2014. Excluding certain items in the second quarters of 2015 and 2014, net income…
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Apple Inc. closed the June quarter with approximately $202.8 billion in cash, short-term and long-term investments, up more than $9 billion from the preceding three-month period, as the world’s biggest consumer electronics company by market value continued to spew cash like a geyser. But where is this hoard of cash and what is the company…
DetailsLindsley Ruth is recruiting at Electrocomponents Plc but only visionary executives prepared to do whatever it will take to exceed customer expectations should apply. Several months into his tenure as Group CEO of the British components distributor, Ruth is casting his eyes over the industry landscape, searching for inspired leaders who can help re-energize the…
DetailsAdvances in wearable devices and the Internet of Things (IoT) are being mirrored by innovations in battery technologies that include flexible, thin, stretchy, curved, foldable, and pin-sized form factors, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan. The four “Mega Trends” powering battery growth are “connectivity and convergence, smart is the new green, future…
DetailsTTI, Inc. the leading global distributor of passive, interconnect, electromechanical and discrete components, has received recognition from Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems as a 3-Star Supplier Excellence Award winner for 2014. The award ceremony was held at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems business instituted the annual Supplier Excellence Awards program to recognize…
DetailsMouser Electronics, Inc. is now stocking the ETX-BT Modules from ADLINK Technology. These Computer-on-Module (COM) devices are designed around the Intel® Atom™ System on Chip (SoC) and include standard functions required for almost any application, such as graphics, Ethernet, audio, IDE, floppy, keyboard/mouse, parallel, serial and USB ports, and PCI and ISA system busses. ADLINK…
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