San Diego, Calif. — Peregrine Semiconductor Corp., founder of RF SOI (silicon on insulator) and pioneer of advanced RF solutions, announces the availability of its discontinued products through the Arrow Electronics’ Supply Assurance program, enabling customers to order obsolete Peregrine products beyond the product’s end-of-life process and last-time-buy event. “From the customer to the manufacturer, Arrow’s…
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PANAMA CITY, June 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — The Expanded Panama Canal is now officially open for business. During today's official inauguration ceremony, Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela and Panama Canal Administrator and CEO Jorge L. Quijano spoke to a crowd of more than 25,000 jubilant Panamanians, Canal employees, heads of state and dignitaries from around…
DetailsBannockburn, Ill. — In September of 2015, IPC delivered revision D of IPC-6012, Qualification and Performance Specification for Rigid Printed Boards. Building on this base standard, IPC has developed the first automotive addendum, IPC-6012DA, Automotive Applications Addendum to IPC-6012D Qualification and Performance Specification for Rigid Printed Boards. This addendum addresses the reliability of rigid printed boards which…
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HICKORY, N.C. , June 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Transportation Insight, a leading global third-party logistics (3PL) provider, announces the company received the Inbound Logistics G75 Award for top green supply chain partners for the third consecutive year. Inbound Logistics ' 75 Green Supply Chain Partners (G75) profiles companies that are leading by example, demonstrating measurable progress…
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SAN JOSE, Calif.—Qualcomm is showing a prototype 5G base station and terminal in China Mobile’s booth at the Mobile World Congress in Shanghai this week. The FPGA- and DSP-based system is one of many early efforts to test ideas expected to emerge in 3GPP standards that won’t start to gel until 2018. The news comes…
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The need for a chief supply chain risk officer to govern and manage the enterprise's supply chain risk management plan is growing. While a study proving this need is not available, I hope to show the benefits of closing the gaps in the roles of three other executive positions: chief supply chain officer, supply chief…
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Mid-way into 2016, the electronics supply chain continues to be hammered by numerous challenges, many of them versions of old problems but which still pack the capacity to do extensive damage to sales and profits at OEMs, component manufacturers and distributors alike. Some of the current difficulties facing electronics makes, however, are emerging from new…
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Human Rights Watch says it is pressing governments worldwide to adopt policies to prevent what it says are rampant labor abuses in worldwide supply chains. At issue is the complex web of supply chains around the world, which account for 450 million jobs, but have huge disparities between labor laws depending on the country. According…
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Hurt by slowing demand in the automotive industry and exchange rate fluctuations, the automotive semiconductor market only grew 0.2 percent in 2015, reaching $29 billion, according to IHS. Despite the challenges, there were a flurry of mergers and acquisitions last year, which caused a shift in the automotive semiconductor rankings. One of the biggest was…
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Depending on how one defines “reshoring,” manufacturing activity is increasing in the Americas. Specifically, electronics businesses and researchers say, Mexico is the biggest beneficiary of North American manufacturing companies re-thinking their global footprint. An executive of a U.S.-based electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company at a recent ECIA gathering said that bad experiences in China have had…
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