Seoul, South Korea — LG Electronics (LG) today announced the appointment of new executives to lead the LG Home Entertainment and LG Mobile Communications companies and the merger of its Home Appliance and Air Conditioning & Energy Solution business units to create a consolidated LG Home Appliance & Air Solution (H&A) Company. All new appointments…
DetailsIrvine, Calif. — Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) has extended its LETERAS family of white LEDs with the launch of its TL1L3 series for industrial LED lighting.The new series features ultra-compact devices that combine gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) chips with an industrial standard 3535 lens type package. While high-performance white LEDs are typically fabricated on expensive sapphire substrates…
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There's no denying it: China is important in the electronics industry. At a global level, it exports more products than any other country and is second largest when measured by imports. A variety of challenges, including cross-boarder documentation, licensing requirements, and regulatory compliance, makes doing business in China challenging at best. At the same time,…
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Long predicted but always seeming to be “just around the corner,” mobile payments may finally have arrived. Apple's recent Apple Pay announcement may be seen in retrospect as launching the coming mobile payment revolution, but the underlying technologies — and alternative solutions — have been emerging for some time. The fundamental technological enabler for mobile…
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I can't believe I'm writing this post in early November, 1.5 months before Christmas. Then again, I noticed that brick-and-mortar stores were already putting up their holiday-shopping displays before Halloween this year , and I've also been seeing “leaked” Black Friday (day after Thanksgiving sales) ad previews since the beginning of the month, so maybe…
DetailsEl Segundo, Calif. – The global market for industrial semiconductors is forecast to increase by 12.9 percent in 2014, reaching $38.5 billion, up from $34.0 billion in 2013, according to IHS Technology. This is up from an increase of 11.4 percent growth in 2013. The growth is attributed to “continuing strength in China and a resurgent U.S.…
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Transporting goods quickly and efficiently is a complicated process that requires coordinating and managing different variables within a fast-paced and volatile environment. In a just-in-time environment, it's critical to carry just enough inventory, but to get there, OEMs require visibility throughout their supply chain. Supply chain performance can be made substantially better by improving logistic…
DetailsHigh-tech companies focus so much on discovering “the next killer applications” they too often miss tectonic shifts already taking place around us. 2014 has been such a deceptive year. The global economy is tracking sideways and manufacturing pace has slowed down in China, Germany and other key production countries. That doesn’t bode well for end-of-year…
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The last pick of the National Football League draft is called Mr. Irrelevant. Becoming irrelevant seems to be somewhat of a norm in electronics. Washington Irving wrote a short story in 1819 about a man who went up into the Catskill Mountains and fell asleep only to return 20 years later and realize how much…
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As every developer knows, there are the paper specifications for a product design, and then there are the real requirements. The paper specs are dry, bland, and rigidly numeric, making them great as metrics but a poor guide to creating a design that will function properly in real-world conditions. Only experience can show you the…
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