The emergence of supply chain collaboration, big data, and green/sustainable supply chains has generated a lot of ink over the past few years. Despite all the buzz, only recently has there been actual movement at the business level. Due to advances in software architecture, data management, and solution delivery, these concepts are now being transformed…
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In my last blog, I described why Internet of Things traffic must be self-classified if we are to wring meaning from billions of devices. Those self-classification techniques work fine with IPv6 — but IPv6 has too much overhead for the vast majority of IoT devices. Instead, I suggest a minimal data format I call Chirp.…
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Partners and fierce rivals. That’s primarily what offshoring of manufacturing to the Far East has given Western manufacturers. From Huawei, Lenovo and Oppo to Xiaomi, ZTE and Foxconn, currently the world’s No. 1 contract manufacturer, the global technology market is witnessing one of the fastest and deepest changes in its population with Chinese companies rapidly…
DetailsArrow today announced: WHAT: Coinciding with the release of the Altera MAX® 10 field-programmable gate array family, Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW), has released the BeMicro Max 10 FPGA evaluation board. Developed in collaboration with Altera and Analog Devices, the BeMicro Max 10 is ideally suited for testing the features and functionality of MAX 10…
DetailsElement14 has selected the winning designs in its Inductive Sensing Design Challenge, featuring the world’s first inductance-to-digital converter from Texas Instruments. Belgian designer Sammy Peiren was named the Grand Prize Winner for his USB microphone concept, and Dutch designer Elbert Kreukniet was named Community Choice Winner for his wireless metal detector. The two designs stood…
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For all of you midlevel supply chain managers with cross-functional expertise, there is some good news: The market can't get enough of you. The supply chain talent shortage has been called a “perfect storm.” Few topics are shrouded in such doom and gloom. Every report cites doomsday statistics of the impending crisis when, by 2025,…
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ATLANTA — International logistics provider DACHSER continues to expand its Asia operations by acquiring the remaining shares of DACHSER India from AFL Pvt. Ltd. This acquisition makes DACHSER the sole shareholder of the company’s ventures in India and Thailand, and a majority shareholder of the joint venture in Bangladesh. The collaboration between DACHSER and AFL…
DetailsPasternack Enterprises, Inc., an industry-leading manufacturer and supplier of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, has been awarded the 4-Star Supplier Excellence Award by Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) business. This is the second consecutive year that Pasternack has been honored with a Supplier Excellence Award from Raytheon IDS. Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems business instituted…
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China's national quest to expand its domestic semiconductor industry suddenly looks more realistic and even winnable now that Intel Corp., the world's largest semiconductor company, has revealed a plan to invest up to RMB 9 billion ($1.5 billion) — to get a roughly 20% stake in the semiconductor business under Tsinghua UniGroup. The Chinese government-affiliated…
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