While the military detects a good percentage of counterfeit parts coming into their sphere of purchases, the commercial side is still wide open. Counterfeiters view the commercial supply chain as much more attractive. The commercial market is much larger and more diversified, the level of testing is lower, and product life cycles are much shorter.…
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LONDON — Behrooz Abdi, CEO of fabless MEMS company InvenSense Inc. (San Jose, Calif.), has said MEMS sensor component companies should offer complete IoT application solutions including data analytics. What 's the reason for that? Because the price of MEMS sensor components is likely to be eroded rapidly and largest part of the value is…
DetailsSan Jose, Calif. — Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a global leader in microcontroller (MCU) and touch solutions, today announced it is shipping the industry’s lowest power, smallest footprint Bluetooth® Smart solution in production quantities. Consuming less than 4mA in RX and less than 3mA TX at 3.6V, the devices increase battery life by as much as one year or…
DetailsTTI, Inc., a world leading specialist distributor of electronic components, has announced Ros Kruger as Director Supplier Marketing Europe – Sensors and Power. The new position reflects the importance that TTI places on these technology sectors and the growth it is experiencing, both with current and new franchises, in these areas. TTI believes strongly in…
DetailsArtesyn Embedded Technologies launched the ConfigPro online power supply configurator to help customers select the best solution among more than three million combinations of configurable power supplies. The tool is designed to make it easier for industrial and medical equipment designers to specify and use configurable power supplies. In many cases, the tool can eliminate…
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Each year, Gartner ranks supply chain leaders from every industry to come up with a list of the best of the best. Historically, the electronics industry distinguishes itself with many familiar names on the list and 2015 was no different. Gartner said of its ranking: One of our goals is to foster the celebration and…
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The Internet of Things, or more specifically machine-to-machine communication, may currently make headlines for innovations such as the self-driving car of the future, but, in reality, IoT-driven processes are making much bigger headway in the supply chain right now. In fact, Gartner recently reported that a 30X increase in Internet-connected physical devices by the year…
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A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well being of mankind. – Henry IV of France Though humans are not the only species to exclusively use tools, the extent to…
DetailsMouser Electronics, Inc. is now stocking the TUSB320 family of USB Type-C™ configuration channel logic and port controllers from Texas Instruments (TI). The TUSB320 family of devices provide USB Type-C configuration channel (CC) logic and port control, making it possible for a system to detect the orientation of the plug, and determine the appropriate USB specification and mode settings for…
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Malcolm Thompson understands global techno-politics. Back in the day, he led an effort to revive LCD display manufacturing in the U.S. These days most panels are made in Korea and China, but the U.S. did get a strategic piece of the pie. Now Thompson is leading a very different effort to…
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