NKK Switches, the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of innovative electromechanical switches, today announced two new authorized territorial sales firms covering the Intermountain West and Southwest: Innovatech Associates and Techni-Source. “Innovatech Associates and Techni-Source are consistently known for their close, intimate relationships with customers based on deep expertise and high skills,” said Marty Arch, national…
DetailsIt’s easy to find evidence to convince anyone China will in future play a diminished role in the electronics manufacturing market. Don’t believe the hype. True, aside from regular supply chain challenges arising from its location and distance from main Western markets and other economic, geo-political and logistics issues, the country’s edge in production has…
DetailsWith the introduction of the PlayStation 4, Sony is closer to profitability with component and manufacturing costs starting lower than its price tag, according to preliminary results from the Teardown Analysis Service at IHS Inc
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The IHS teardown of the PlayStation 4 reveals that Sony is nearing the break-even point on hardware costs, while significantly boosting performance.
DetailsLittelfuse, Inc., the global leader in circuit protection, has reached an agreement with Mouser Electronics, Inc. for Mouser to offer its customers Hamlin Electronics’ extensive line of sensors, reed switches, and reed relays. “Littelfuse has a broad line of innovative products for the electronics industry and Mouser has been a valued partner for many years.…
DetailsWith RFID technology coming on line for many different business sectors, I could not help but notice the impact for B2B applications with respect to the management of critical data to ensure they can survive the untimely demise of a product in the field. Why is this important? Instead of having to reconstruct the scene…
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Google Inc. is fast becoming the hottest must-have partner for many supply chain service providers in the electronics manufacturing industry. With the Web search engine provider expanding its roster of electronics hardware, sales and profit opportunities running into billions of dollars have opened up at the company for semiconductor makers and other component suppliers, distributors,…
DetailsSemtech Corp., a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, today reported unaudited financial results for its fiscal year 2014 third quarter, which ended October 27, 2013. Net revenue for the third quarter of fiscal year 2014 was $141.0 million, down 12 percent from the third quarter of fiscal year 2013 and down 15 percent…
DetailsMicrochip launches its PIC32MZ Embedded Connectivity (EC) family of 32-bit MCUs for embedded applications that delivers performance of 330 DMIPS and 3.28 CoreMarks/MHz, along with a host of integrated features.
DetailsRichardson RFPD, Inc. today announces immediate availability and full design support capabilities for a new 14-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) from Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI). The AD9683BCPZ-250 core features a multistage, differential pipelined architecture with integrated output error correction logic, as well as wide bandwidth inputs that support a variety of user-selectable input ranges. An integrated…
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