The latest lithium-ion battery market report from EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, finds that the price upswing for battery cells has started to moderate since this third quarter. Although the price of cobalt reached a new high for the recent years during the third quarter, prices of battery cells have been climbing more slowly after the large…
DetailsRFMW, Inc. a worldwide, specialized distributor of RF and microwave components and sub-systems, has attained the new AS9120B status well ahead of the mandated deadline. AS9120B is the quality management standard for Aviation, Space and Defense organizations and the new AS9120:2016 (Revision B) replaces AS9120:2009 (Revision A). Organizations must transition to AS9120B by September 2018,…
DetailsXP Power, a world-leading developer and manufacturer of critical power solutions for the electronics industry, announces that it has acquired the business and assets of Comdel Inc., a Massachusetts, US-based designer and manufacturer of radio frequency (RF) power supplies. The $23 million deal expands XP Power’s product offering into RF power, complementing its extensive range…
DetailsPower Integrations (Nasdaq: POWI), the leader in high-voltage integrated circuits for energy-efficient power conversion, announced the opening of a new location in Penang, Malaysia. The facility will serve as a production-support and R&D center as well as an operations hub from which the company will manage its Asian supply chain. The Penang office further expands…
DetailsBattelle is teaming with Rare Earth Salts (RES) on a potentially groundbreaking project for the United States Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. The project, Recovery of High Purity Rare Earth Elements (REEs) from Coal Ash via a Novel Separations Process, will produce valuable Rare Earth Oxides from coal fly ash, converting them to the…
DetailsCelanese Corporation (NYSE:CE), a global technology and specialty materials company, today announced plans to expand the capacity of its global compounding assets and certain product-specific manufacturing production sites to support the significant growth in its engineered materials business. “As the global demand for specialty materials increases in key industries such as medical, automotive, consumer goods…
DetailsToday from APICS 2017, the premier event for supply chain, logistics and operations management professionals, the supply chain association, APICS, announced the launch of its Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) 12.0 model. SCOR has been the cross-industry, global standard for supply chain excellence for the last twenty years, and with this update will continue to support ways to measure,…
DetailsMouser Electronics, Inc., the industry’s leading New Product Introduction (NPI) distributor with the widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components, is now stocking CLQ6A-TKW red, green, blue, and white (RGBW) LEDs from Cree®. The CLQ6A-TKW devices are the first individually addressable 1W RGBW LEDs in their class, opening new design possibilities for architectural lighting. Cree CLQ6A-TKW devices, available from Mouser…
DetailsA new report published this week by IPC, Trends in the North American Market for PCB Prototypes, reveals cycles in demand for PCB prototypes that often differ from demand trends in regular or volume-production PCB sales. Despite high volatility in prototype sales from month to month, the IPC data show clear cycles in prototype sales growth,…
DetailsThe LoRa Alliance™, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN™ standard for internet of things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), released its latest technical specifications to kick off the organization’s 9th All Members Meeting (AMM) taking place in Suzhou, China and hosted by ZTE. New features in the latest specification releases include roaming and…
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