Formerly used only in the cockpits of multimillion-dollar jet fighters, head-up displays (HUD) now are finding their way into family cars, with navigation and driver-assist functions helping drive the automotive HUD market to expand by more than a factor of seven from 2012 to 2020. Worldwide sales of cars equipped with HUDs are set to…
DetailsHeilind Electronics, the largest distributor of interconnect products in North America, is now stocking FCI’s mezzanine, power and high-speed (MPH) connectors. The FCI mezzanine connector family is for parallel board stacking applications for diverse markets, such as data, medical, telecom, storage, networking and industrial. Those mezzanine options include high-speed mezzanine connectors, fine-pitch mezzanine connectors and…
DetailsThe Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), representing U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing and design, today announced that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $24.70 billion for the month of May 2013, an increase of 4.6 percent from the previous month when sales were $23.62 billion. This represents the largest sequential monthly increase in sales for the industry…
DetailsAs Molex Incorporated (NASDAQ: MOLX and MOLXA), begins its new fiscal year today, the company proudly celebrates its 75th year in business serving customers in the global electronics industry. Providing innovative interconnect solutions to the world’s leading manufacturers, the company’s primary markets include data communications, telecommunications, consumer electronics, industrial, automotive, aerospace and defense, medical and…
DetailsRichardson RFPD, Inc. today announces immediate availability and full design support capabilities for a range of high performance switches from MACOM Technology Solutions (MACOM). MACOM’s proven range of broadband switches offer industry-leading reliability, frequency coverage from DC to 20 GHz, input power handling up to 10W, insertion loss as low as 0.5 dB, and isolation…
DetailsThe U.S. Navy has awarded Amphenol Corp. a $45 million procurement contract for the supply of fiber optic cable assembly products, further cementing the company’s position as one of the leading supplier of connectors to the military market. Amphenol is expected to supply the fiber optic cable assembly as replacement for the light-emitted diode-based CX-13295…
DetailsThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says it has brought charges against medical scanner manufacturer Imaging 3 Inc., for allegedly misleading investors and shareholders about the details of a Food and Drug Administration’s ruling on one of its product. The SEC in a statement said it filed the fraud charges against both the company…
DetailsI find the EMS industry interesting; it is not so much about what they do, but their business model. While their function is interesting it pales in comparison to their low profit margin business model. They do so much for so little. Why is this? I have many of the largest (as well as small…
DetailsRS Components( http://www.rs-components.com/index.html ) (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc( http://www.electrocomponents.com ) (LSE:ECM), the world’s leading high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products, has announced the availability of BeagleBone Black( http://www.rs-components.com/beagleboneblack ), the latest version of BeagleBone, a credit-card sized open hardware expandable Linux computer from BeagleBoard.org that connects with the Internet and…
DetailsRaytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has acquired a privately held company, Visual Analytics Incorporated, further extending Raytheon’s capabilities to meet the data analytics, data visualization and information sharing needs of its customers. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. As one of the largest processors of data for the intelligence community, Raytheon has extensive experience handling…
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