After a handful of years marked with component shortages, expanding lead times, pandemic-related supply chain disruption and most recently a ground war, “business as usual” is a relative term. The electronics industry has been especially turbulent, but supply chain businesses see both challenge and opportunity. OEMs and EMS providers have sought deeper supply chain relationships…
As the global semiconductor industry breaks ground on dozens of new fabs, there’s a side effect that chip makers don’t like to advertise: product obsolescence
There is a long list of challenges ahead for the chip market — rampant inflation, soaring energy costs, ongoing glitches in supply chains, recent Covid-19 virus lockdowns in China and Russia’s war with Ukraine. Still, IC Insights continues to anticipate an 11 percent increase in total semiconductor sales this year—the same growth rate that was…
Just about a year ago, hopeful electronics companies were forecasting semiconductor supply constraints would ease in the second half of 2022
If you Google Arrow’s new President and CEO Sean Kerins, you’ll see references to his basketball career at Syracuse as well as his leadership at Arrow
ECIA’s Electronic Component Sales Trend Survey (ECST) exceeded expectations in April
China’s lockdown of Shanghai was supposed to be short-lived. As the country remains steadfast in its Covid-19 zero-tolerance policy, disruption to the global supply chain continues to build. As of April 25, the prospect of lockdowns in Beijing increased as the nation tracked a Covid-19 outbreak that may have been spreading in the capital for…
It’s no secret that inflation is on the rise and just about everything is getting more expensive. Unfortunately, that’s a trend that’s likely to continue—so OEMs need to be thinking strategically now about how to manage this curve. Earlier this month, the Labor Department reported that the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U)…
Electronic component sales expectations for March and April have softened compared with previous months, according to the ECIA
The latest semiconductor supply crisis is brewing in the manufacturing equipment industry.