It's more than likely your company has experienced a cyber breach. Indeed, 79% of companies have been subject to a cyber incident in the past year, according to a PwC report. And the threats are on the rise: hacking and other “cyber incidents” are growing at an estimated rate of nearly 40% each year. Amid…
DetailsSan Carlos, Calif. — Alliance Memory today expands its line of legacy low-power CMOS SRAMs with a new 8M IC (512K x 16 bit) in the 48-pin 12-mm by 20-mm TSOP-I package. Available from a very limited number of suppliers and recently discontinued by another manufacturer, the AS6C8016-55TIN operates from a single power supply of 2.7 V to…
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Amazon Business, the B2B unit of Amazon.com, attended this year’s EDS conference for component manufacturers, distributors, and manufacturers’ representatives for the first time, driving a few distributors to tackle the issue of channel disruptors. Clearly, e-tailers like Amazon Business and Alibaba are a concern to the distribution channel as they directly compete with them. Authorized…
DetailsIn 2015, an amazing wave of consolidations struck the semiconductor industry. Proposed mergers approached $160B in market value and over $100B have already been consummated. That’s more than six times the largest annual merger amount in the history of the semiconductor industry. To many, this consolidation seems natural. After all, the semiconductor industry is now…
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It is rare in the highly-competitive electronics distribution industry that companies quickly agree on anything that might make them a bit less unique. But 2D barcoding may be the exception. Distributors offer customized barcoding services to customers to differentiate themselves from the pack. But barcoding may be more of headache than a strategic edge. The…
DetailsFedEx Corporation (FedEx) (NYSE:FDX), FedEx Acquisition B.V. (the Offeror) and TNT Express N.V. (TNT Express) jointly announce that FedEx has acquired TNT Express. The €4.4 billion acquisition combines the strengths of the companies – the world’s largest air express network and an unparalleled European road network, which will expand the existing FedEx portfolio and reshape…
DetailsGeneva, Ill. – Richardson RFPD, Inc. today announced an agreement with GaN Systems Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, Richardson RFPD will sell GaN Systems’ GaN on Si power devices on a global basis, excluding Israel. GaN Systems manufactures a range of gallium nitride high-power transistors for consumer, enterprise, industrial, solar/wind/smartgrid, and transportation power-conversion…
DetailsFlex, a leading sketch-to-scale™ solutions company, today announced a strategic partnership with Vantage Point Analytics, a SaaS based security solutions company that provides mobile threat intelligence to secure supply chains and products— anywhere at any time. Supply chain fraud is costing companies revenue and, until now, there has been limited visibility into supply chain fraud.…
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While people power the supply chain, your processes dictate what your people do as well as how and when they do it. That's why, to sustain profitability and growth, it's imperative that you implement processes specifically designed to meet the needs of your customers. In addition, to keep pace with industry changes and evolving customer…
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There has been a lot of debate recently on role of teams in marketing procurement, partly due to the bold decision taken by PepsiCo to remove the entire marketing procurement department and putting the responsibility firmly on marketing teams. If we analyze the comments on various channels, we notice that most marketing teams, (especially those…
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