How does a commodity manager source a sensor for high-reliability applications such as medical devices, transportation equipment, or industrial controls? Commodity managers have to deal with several major concerns including cost issues, materials compliance, and availability of supply, while ensuring that they will bring a high quality product to market. One way to ensure that…
DetailsAavid Corp., the global technology leader in providing thermal management solutions to the electronics industry since 1964, announces the move of their corporate offices and New England design center from Concord to Laconia, NH, where the company owns and operates a 200,000 square foot manufacturing facility. Aavid was originally founded in Laconia nearly 50 years…
DetailsFuture Electronics, the world’s 3rd largest distributor of electronics components, has formally announced its new division, Future Connectivity Solutions. This new division provides dedicated Marketing, Sales, Technical Sales and solutions support for the rapidly growing machine-to-machine marketplace. Future Connectivity Solutions was announced earlier this week to employees worldwide and is being rolled out across all…
DetailsPrinted circuit board (PCB) sales growth to the military/aerospace market continues to outpace sales to other vertical markets in North America, according to IPC’s July 2013 issue of North American PCB Market Report. Despite cutbacks in the U.S. military budget, cumulative rigid PCB sales to the military market from January through May this year were…
DetailsIt isn’t always a physical location but the “black” or “grey” market is a part of many local and international business transactions. The “black market” has a hint of illegality, which is one reason it is the preferred term for the unauthorized foreign exchange market because the buying and selling of hard currency outside of…
DetailsA new generation of thin hard disk drives (HDD) only 5.0 and 7.0 millimeters thick are expected to enjoy fast sales growth in coming years, as mobile computers including ultrathin PCs and PC tablets drive up demand by a factor of more than 25 from 2012 to 2017. The combined shipments of 5.0- and 7.0-millimeter…
DetailsAccording to the survey by WitsView, the display research division of the global market intelligence provider TrendForce, the large-sized panel shipment for June 2013 reached 65.95 million units, declining 2.5% MoM. When entering the slow season in June and TV panel seeing extending price drops, brands stayed cautious on procurement, and the overall LCD TV…
DetailsWireless technologies like Bluetooth and embedded cellular are accelerating in the car business, with market revenue set to rise by 41 percent from 2012 through 2018, according to an Automotive Infotainment Market Tracker Report from information and analytics provider IHS (NYSE: IHS). Global original equipment manufacturer (OEM) market revenue for wireless technology in cars is…
DetailsShareholder rights attorneys at Robbins Arroyo LLP announce that a shareholder of SemiLEDs Corporation (NASDAQ: LEDS) has filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The complaint alleges that the company and certain of its officers and directors violated the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 between December 9,…
DetailsRichardson RFPD, Inc. today announces immediate availability and full design support capabilities for a new family of circulators and isolators from Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (Skyworks). The new devices offer high isolation and low insertion loss, cover a broad frequency range (791-2710 MHz), and are available in ultra-miniature packages—as small as 11mm and 15mm, without sacrificing…
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