Phil Gallagher is optimistic about Avnet Inc. Following the announcement of the distributor’s fiscal Q2 earnings, the president of Avnet’s electronic components business assessed the company’s progress after a tumultuous 18 months. “We are making progress,” Gallagher said. “We are excited about where we are. We feel we are coming out the other side of a number…
Electronic component suppliers have been complaining for years about eroding prices. With many types components currently in short supply, prices have finally begun to tick up. But are any of these price hikes sustainable? Typically, the answer is “no.” A continual stream of better-smaller-faster components exerts downward price pressure on older-generation products. However, one research…
For procurement organizations, supply base consolidation is a glass-half-full/glass-half-empty scenario. Optimists see an opportunity to buy more products from fewer suppliers; pessimists see favored vendors or product lines going the way of the dinosaur. Both points of view are valid. If you are a big customer of Company A and Company B is your second…
Merger and acquisition (M&A) agreements in the semiconductor industry total more than $50 billion in 2016, according to IC Insights. Although semiconductor M&As reached an historic high of $103.8 billion in 2015, this year is shaping up to be the second largest year for M&A announcements in the chip industry, said the market researcher, which…
Electronics manufacturers are resigned to the stark reality that 2016 and the next several years will be marked more by restructuring, operational adjustments and management upheavals than strong growth. Across the industry, electronics firms are retooling everything for a vaguely defined “digital future” that everyone says requires a new growth strategy, a different set of…
Hurt by slowing demand in the automotive industry and exchange rate fluctuations, the automotive semiconductor market only grew 0.2 percent in 2015, reaching $29 billion, according to IHS. Despite the challenges, there were a flurry of mergers and acquisitions last year, which caused a shift in the automotive semiconductor rankings. One of the biggest was…
Lansdale Semiconductor, Inc. President, R. Dale Lillard, announced today the continued availability of the ML1590/BGA, National Stock Number (NSN) 5962-01-280-2203. The ML1590 is supplied in (8) lead metal cans to Standard Microcircuit Drawing (SMD) 5962-876570 integrated circuits (ICs), originally designed and built by Motorola/Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Lansdale has single-source rights to both globally market and…
Austin, Tex. – Freescale Semiconductor released an ultra-thin version of the Kinetis K22 microcontroller (MCU) with a 120-MHz ARM Cortex-M4 core, 512KB Flash and 128KB SRAM in a package measuring 0.34 millimeters in height. The new device is suited for applications such as chip-and-PIN credit cards, wearables and consumer electronics that require security and small form factors.…
Electronics companies scored higher than other industries in a ranking of 1,267 publicly-traded companies that filed a Conflict Mineral Disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for 2014. The top 100 ranking, conducted by Tulane University and sponsored by consulting firm Assent Compliance, were based on two key areas – compliance with the U.S.…
On the face of it the answer to the question in the headline above would have to be a definite yes. Many industry executives certainly believe this is the case, hence the recent spate of multi-billion dollar mergers and acquisitions. Since the beginning of 2015 there have been nearly 40 M&A deals in the semiconductor…