The Internet of Things (IoT) – which represents a great opportunity for component makers and OEMs in the electronics market – has implications for the millions of users of IoT applications. Purchasing, I’d imagine, is one of those applications. When I look at purchasing issues, I break them into two separate groups: my issues as…
DetailsPulse Electronics Corporation (NYSE:PULS), a leading provider of electronic components, today announced that its Board of Directors has named Alan H. Benjamin, Chief Operating Officer of the company, as interim Chief Executive Officer, and John E. Major, lead independent member of Pulse’s Board of Directors, as interim Chairman of the Board, effective immediately. These appointments…
DetailsCypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) today announced its second-quarter 2014 results, which included the remarks below from its president and CEO, T.J. Rodgers. Highlights for the quarter included: Revenue met guidance Net income beat guidance and more than doubled sequentially Consumer electronics revenue slowed, but the industrial and automotive sector remained strong at 43% of…
DetailsFairchild Semiconductor (Nasdaq:FCS), a leading global supplier of power semiconductors, today announced results for the second quarter ended June 29, 2014. Fairchild reported second quarter sales of $371.6 million, up 8 percent from the prior quarter and 4 percent higher than the second quarter of 2013. Fairchild reported second quarter net income of $17.8 million…
DetailsRichardson RFPD, Inc. announced today the availability and full design support capabilities for selected parts from the DG series of wire wound ferrite inductors from TOKO. The DG8040C and DG6045C are part of a new line of wire wound ferrite inductors that cover an inductance range of 1–100µH and feature higher current than previous…
DetailsIsola Group S.à r.l., a market leader in copper-clad laminates and dielectric prepreg materials used to fabricate advanced multilayer printed circuit boards (PCBs), today announced that its technical staff would offer a conversion service for PCB fabricators of radio frequency (RF) and millimeter-wave applications. This global 24-hour design review service will enable PCB fabricators to quickly and…
DetailsThe Asia-Pacific region is forecast to increase its share in the ASIC market by 17 percent from 2004 to 2014, according to new research in IC Insights’ soon-to-be-released Mid-Year Update to the 2014 McClean Report. Asia-Pacific is the only region forecast to significantly increase in ASIC market share – Europe is expected to increase by 0.9 percent and…
DetailsMicrosoft Corp. today announced a restructuring plan to simplify its operations and align the recently acquired Nokia Devices and Services business with the company’s overall strategy. These steps will result in the elimination of up to 18,000 positions over the next year. Of the total, about 12,500 professional and factory positions will be eliminated through…
DetailsAvnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), has made video presentations of recent Design Seminars and SpeedWay Design Workshops™ available online for free on-demand viewing at ZedBoard.org. Avnet’s Design Seminars are online courses providing application-specific training for designers of embedded applications based on the Xilinx® Zynq®-7000 All Programmable SoC architecture, which…
DetailsSanta Clara, Calif.—The manufacturing cost gap between AMOLED and TFT LCD smartphone displays is closing as production yields improve, which should drive increased use in smartphone panels, according to a NPD DisplaySearch OLED Technology Report. Although manufacturing costs for AMOLED panels are currently 10-20 percent higher than for TFT LCD displays, they are expected fall below…
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