LONDON — Gartner Inc. has produced an updated top-ten chip vendor ranking for 2014 based on companies' final financial results. There is one change of position to a preliminary ranking produced in January 2015 and other changes of company sales and annual growth figures and market shares. Gartner re-assessed its opinion of Toshiba's annual chip…
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Research Triangle Park, NC – More than 17,000 young people (ages 6-18) from around the world will gather in St. Louis, Missouri next week to enter robots they've built in fun-filled, exciting competitions that celebrate excellence in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), innovative thinking, and teamwork. The FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science…
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PHOENIX—Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), a leading global technology distributor, announced today the 2015 winners of the Avnet Tech Games. Of the more than 200 students from universities and community colleges who competed in the games on Saturday, April 11 and in the virtual competitions, 31 students collected $1,000 scholarships. Additionally, nine faculty advisors received $2,700 in…
DetailsMouser Electronics, Inc., the global authorized distributor with the newest semiconductors and electronic components, today announced it has entered into a global distribution agreement and partnership with Traco Electronic Co. Ltd. a leading power supply specialist and global leader with more than 35 years’ experience designing and manufacturing high quality power conversion products. TRACO’s power…
DetailsElement14 has added to its extensive range of MOSFET drivers the ACPL-K30T from Avago Technologies, one of the world’s leading supplier of analog interface components for wireless, wireline, storage and industrial applications. An optocoupler-based photovoltaic driver device, ACPL-K30T features high ESD rating and fast turn-off time, and is compatible with a wide selection of AEC-Q101…
DetailsMouser Electronics, Inc. is now stocking the MSP-EXP432P401R LaunchPad Evaluation Kit from Texas Instruments (TI). This new TI LaunchPad is an easy-to-use rapid-prototyping kit for TI’s new MSP432P401R microcontrollers featuring 256KBytes of Flash and 64K of SRAM. The new TI MSP432™ microcontroller family is based on a low power ARM® Cortex‑M4F and draws as little as…
DetailsAtmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch technology solutions, today announced the company is the first to receive the PRIME (PoweRline Intelligent Metering Evolution) v1.4 Profile 2 certification for the Atmel | SMART SAM4CP16B and ATPL230A smart metering solutions. The certification extends Atmel’s leadership and commitment to delivering state-of-the-art connectivity solutions and…
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In the average manufacturing organization, a quick look around provides ample evidence of a gender gap. However, what organizations may not understand is how the lack of diversity may be harming the business. “For any sector, gender and diversity are important to success,”Abe Eshkenazi, chief executive officer of APICS , told EBN in an interview.…
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Though people always talk about the weather, no one ever does anything about it. To some extent, that is also true about climate, even for those concerned about climate change. Doing something requires more than awareness. It requires a plan, and mapping out a plan begins with information about current practices. A new partnership is…
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The trading of illegal minerals to finance conflicts, particularly in central Africa, is an ongoing concern for us all. However, meeting the demands of the Dodd-Frank Act has proven easier said than done. In 2010, the Dodd-Frank Act was the first legislation aimed expressly at addressing the issue by changing corporate behavior. Without regard to…
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