With the holiday season quickly approaching, electronics retailers couldn't be in a better position to make record breaking sales, exceeding the $1 trillion earned in 2014. Electronics make ideal gifts, and electronic stores are one of the largest revenue generating distributors, accounting for 13.6% of all holiday sales. However, OEMs won't cash in unless they…
DetailsTijuana, Mexico, — Flex (NASDAQ: FLEX), the sketch-to-scale solutions company that designs and builds intelligent products for a connected world, is today celebrating the grand opening of its new medical device manufacturing facility and Center of Excellence in Tijuana, Mexico, dedicated to the innovative development and manufacturing of medical devices. Located ten minutes from San Diego, California,…
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Retailing for USD99, the Gear VR splits open to dock the smartphone in front of its dual optics, it gets the processing power via a microUSB connection. Sure, this makes a heavier virtual reality headset than the standalone Oculus rift version (which doesn’t have to hold a full mobile in the face of the wearer),…
DetailsAlbany, N.Y. — According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research Head-up Display Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2015 – 2022″, the global head-up displays (HUDs) market, is forecast to reach US$ 7.05 bn by 2022. A HUD is a device used to project driving-related information such as vehicle speed, fuel reading,…
DetailsAny organization that ships products internationally has had to deal with third-party screening requirements for decades. Now, however, the process is both getting easier and more complex. “Screening has become de facto process for electronics companies, since they may be selling dual use products with both commercial and military uses especially,” said Ken Harris, head…
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The emergence of the electronics manufacturing services (EMS) sector has been wonderful to watch. The bigger impact, though, has been on the supply chain as these business trends have created what I see as one of the best supply chains in the world. The electronics manufacturing services (EMS) industry took globalization and ran with it. …
DetailsTsinghua-owned Unisplendour Corporation Limited (Unis) is investing $3.775 billion in Western Digital, giving the company a 15 percent equity stake in the U.S. data storage maker. The investment also gives Unis “the right to nominate one representative to the Western Digital board of directors.” “The equity investment by Unis will help facilitate our growth as…
DetailsCarson City, Nev. —Ametherm now offers complete customization of its NTC thermistor probe assemblies to meet a customer’s specific application needs. Assemblies can be designed and built in as little as two weeks, the company said. The devices can be built to customer-specified resistance values, tolerances, beta values, insulation resistance, and dielectric voltage breakdown. “We can…
DetailsWorldwide shipments of 3D printers will reach 496,475 units in 2016, up 103 percent from the predicted 244,533 units in 2015, according to Gartner, Inc.’s latest forecast. 3D printer shipments are forecast to more than double every year between 2016 and 2019, by which time worldwide shipments are expected to reach more than 5.6 million. “Rapid quality…
DetailsMellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier of end-to-end interconnect solutions for servers and storage systems, and EZchip (NASDAQ: EZCH; TASE: EZCH), a leader in high-performance processing solutions for carrier and data center networks, announced today that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Mellanox shall acquire 100 percent of EZchip’s…
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