SAN FRANCISCO—A crisis over Toshiba Corp.’s financial stability has gone from bad to worse, leading to the Japanese company to consider more aggressive actions such as selling a larger portion of its semiconductor business than previously planned to offset losses in its nuclear power business. Toshiba said Tuesday (Feb. 14) it would explore other ways…
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The distribution channel is beginning to feel the fallout from rampant merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the semiconductor industry. Analog Devices Inc., which is acquiring Linear Technology, announced it is naming Arrow Electronics Inc. as its sole global distributor and is cutting Avnet Inc., except for Avnet’s Premier Farnell unit. Both Arrow and Avnet…
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Contract prices of PC DRAM modules are expected to rise nearly 40 percent on average, sequentially, in the first quarter of 2017, and continue to climb in the second quarter, according to DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce. In addition, capacity expansion by suppliers won’t impact the market until the second half of 2017, resulting in worsening…
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By most accounts, 2017 is shaping up as a good year for component sales. Data from the ECIA, gathered from its distributor members; and the world’s largest global distributor, Arrow Electronics Inc., point to an uptick in demand for the first quarter of 2017. The ECIA reported its Q4 book-to-bill (btb) ratio was 1.05; Arrow…
DetailsAs the excitement of the Consumer Electronics Show 2017 (CES) subsides and the tens of thousands of exhibitors and visitors make their way home, here are our top ten takeaways from a week of innovation, inspiration, and education. These are the lessons that technology makers and electronics OEMs may want to watch in the coming…
DetailsExpanding application base of the Internet of Things (IoT) is translating into rapid technological advancement and miniaturisation of devices that entails stronger connection peripherals. This, in turn, is resulting in higher demand for CMOS power amplifier. Future Market Insights has recently conducted an analytical study on the global CMOS power amplifier market that projects a stout…
DetailsAccording to the new research report “Display Market by Technology (LED-backlit LCD, OLED, QD-LED, E-Paper), Display Type (Flat, Flexible, Transparent), Application (Smartphone & Tablet, TV & Digital Signage, PC Monitor & Laptop), Vertical, and Geography – Global Forecast to 2022”, published by MarketsandMarkets, the market is expected to grow to USD 169.17 Billion by 2022, from USD 106.41 Billion in…
DetailsIntegral Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:ITKG) (Integral), an emerging light-weighting leader and its wholly owned subsidiary ElectriPlast Corp., maker of the ElectriPlast™ line of electrically conductive resins, announced the signing of a long term strategic alliance with Nova Polymers, Inc. (Nova) to expand its manufacturing operations at Nova’s campus in Evansville, IN. Under the Agreement, Nova will provide manufacturing and laboratory testing for…
DetailsSTMicroelectronics has released its MCU Finder for PC, enabling embedded developers to access essential STM32 32-bit ARM® Cortex®-M and STM8 8-bit MCU (microcontroller) information conveniently from the same desktop environment used for application development. Leveraging features of ST’s popular MCU Finder mobile app (ST-MCU-FINDER), the PC version (ST-MCU-FINDER-PC) provides easy-to-use selection tools, self-maintaining documentation, and connections…
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