Woodstock Wire: Industry News

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - This week: U.S. manufacturing sees significant growth; automakers partner to help end the semiconductor shortage; shipping costs continue to impact electronics manufacturing - and other industry headlines.

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - Despite a difficult start and some headwinds that still remain, a range of economic factors could propel the electronics industry to greater growth as the decade progresses ...

Aspencore -- EETimes - The global economy is still hobbled by supply chain problems, but there is still a great deal of optimism that the electronics industry is creating the tools that will help the world dig itself out of its economic problems.

At the conclusion...

Distribution -- Disti Blog - The German component distribution market grew 25.2 % to 887 million Euros in the third quarter of this year. Although the summer quarter did not bring new sales records, it clearly ended with record orders says FBDi, the German components...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - In this week's news: Ongoing shortages could derail recovery in U.S. electronics manufacturing; growth signals in the enterprise notebook PC market; an important Bluetooth security discovery that could affect phone manufacturers - plus...

Distribution -- Disti Blog - The European components distribution market is revving up for a record year. The slow start into 2021 has been completely replaced by a double-digit rally both in Semiconductors and IP&E (Interconnect, Passive and Electromechanical) components.

Q3...

Media -- Time - Business - At the age of 98, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has a whole new area of interest: artificial intelligence. He...

Media -- Electronics Sourcing - Important date for readers' diaries. In six months, the Electronic Component Show takes place on 19 May 2022 at the Kassam Stadium, home to Oxford United Football Club

The event offers Electronics Sourcing's readers an ideal opportunity...

Business Wire -- The number of commodity dimensions with red status grew again as the industry entered the fourth quarter of 2021, according to the latest Supplyframe Commodity IQ, a unique combination of analytics and analysis that offers predictive and prescriptive...

Distribution -- Disti Blog - It is all change on the Steering Board at DMASS. Long-term chairman Georg Steinberger, of Avnet Electronics Marketing EMEA is stepping down after 22 years at the helm.

Members elected Hermann W. Reiter of Digi-Key to Chairman and Dietmar...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - This week: Solving China's energy shortage may require a step backward; Vietnam looks toward recovery in manufacturing; automakers invest in battery manufacturing - and more electronics headlines from this week.

Aspencore -- EETimes Europe - 2021 has seen a severe supply crunch in electronic components, particularly silicon chips and crystals. The prolonged shortage has catapulted an industry story onto the front pages. It is one thing for electronics supply managers to be...

Media -- Electronic Engineering Journal - I have lost count of the many times I've heard pundits and semiconductor execs say that the semiconductor industry has "finally" dispensed with the cyclic nature of the business. It must have been scores of times over the past 50 years.

MDM - Distribution-Trends -- Salespeople will continue to hit the road when and where they can, but distributors still need to hone their remote sales tactics.

Aspencore -- EPS News - In 2001, there was so much excess component inventory in the supply chain that more than $13 billion worth of semiconductors alone was written down or off by component makers, distributors and customers. People still wince at the memory.

In...

Aspencore -- EPS News - The risk of procuring counterfeit electronics rises considerably during periods of component shortages. With semiconductor supplies remaining tight through the end of 2022, the industry faces a prolonged interval of increased risk.

Industry...

Media -- SemiMedia - According to Bloomberg, the amount of time it's taking for chip-starved companies to get orders filled stretched to 21 weeks in August, indicating the shortages that have crippled auto production and held back growth in the electronics industry...

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - A staggering 96% of buyers plan to continue leveraging e-procurement long-term, making closing the gap between increased demand and the arrival of supply in the B2B space more important than ever.

Aspencore -- EETimes - The U.S. Congress and the Biden Administration are hurtling down the track toward investing billions of dollars in the domestic semiconductor manufacturing industry. But there is a flaw in their approach because they are ignoring the broader...

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - Sequentially, July's sales mark improved 2% from June.

Business Wire -- European companies are seeking service providers with broad geographic reach to help roll out and manage their IoT networks, ISG (Nasdaq: III) says.

Media -- DIGITIMES - South Korea's Samsung Electronics is investing US$230 million to build a R&D center in Hanoi, Vietnam, which is expected to start operation in 2022 and hire 2,200-3,000 employees, according to VIR.

Media -- eeNews Europe - The Cobham Group is set to acquire UK defence electronics firm Ultra Electronics for 2.57 billion (about US$3.56 billion) in a cash deal.



Cobham made its first bid on July 21, 2021, and the deal represents a 63.1 percent premium...

Distribution -- Disti Blog - With one bound the European semiconductor distribution market was free from its COVID blues.

While Q1 was still negative, Q2/21 more than compensated for it and ended up with 25.2% growth to over 2.3 Billion Euro combined distribution revenue...

Aspencore -- EPS News - The board of directors for the 2021 EDS Leadership Summit has announced the event has been canceled.

In a message on ECIA's website, President and CEO David Loftus wrote:



In planning this year's EDS, the number one concern has always been the...

Life -- Gallup Headlines - The IMF recently forecast strong economic growth in 2021/2022 for advanced economies. These countries led an unprecedented rise in global pessimism about economic conditions in 2020.

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - As manufacturing has recovered, sales of semiconductors and connectors rose sharply above 2020 levels. Ron Bishop details regional and global sales of connectors versus semiconductors and details potential challenges to the market.

Media -- SemiMedia - According to statistics released by the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA) on July 30, the surge in demand for capacitors from Europe and the United States drove the global shipments of Japanese electronic...

Media -- DIGITIMES - The global electric vehicle (EV) market, judging from the progress in technological development, is likely to reach its sweet spot in 2025-2026, according to Jack Cheng, CEO for the MIH Alliance, a Foxconn (Hon Hai)-led open platform for developing...

Aspencore -- EPS News - Increased component prices are inevitable when demand outstrips supply. But the electronics supply chain is being hammered on all sides - from materials to logistics -- with rising costs. As one freight expert put it: "In 2020 and 2021, global...

Business Wire -- Today, Orbweaver Sourcing LLC, a data integration and automation company focusing on the electronics industry, announced the release of its next generation DataHub platform. The data integration tool that connects Orbweaver's clients to their customers,...

Media -- Electronics Sourcing - James Carbone - Contributing Editor

An increase in design engineering activity and tight supply of chips and other components is resulting in skyrocketing sales for high-service distributors.

High-service electronics distributors...

Business Wire -- Many people today shop for and research potential purchases online. Semiconductor and electronic component buyers are no exception. However, semiconductor and electronic component distributors and manufacturers have limited visibility into purchase intent...

Business Wire -- A new report from Guidehouse Insights examines the sensing and digital technologies that support IoT for smart agriculture, providing global market forecasts through 2030. Smart farming and agriculture follow the Industry 4.0 trends of leveraging...

Aspencore -- EPS News - While manufacturing has rebounded from the long Covid quarantine, the supply chain has not. Logistics operations - already short-handed - are dealing with a seemingly unending series of disruptions.

And there's no relief in sight, experts say.

Shipping...

Aspencore -- EETimes - Engineering projects are usually not a 9-to-5 endeavor, work must be completed on time, and long hours are not uncommon. Working the same job with hectic schedules can take its toll over the years and decades, leaving engineers looking forward...

Media -- Semiconductor Engineering - Carmakers are reworking their electronic architectures so they can tap into a growing number of external services and internal options, similar to the way a data center taps into various services over its internal network.

In...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - This week: the European Union weighs potential risks of artificial intelligence systems; notebook and smartphone demand drives NAND flash revenue; the U.S. government looks at how to handle reshoring; Japan's passive components production...

Media -- DIGITIMES - To counter the geopolitical challenge and reduce its dependence on the US, China is accelerating investment in next-generation enabling technologies. Against this backdrop, the country is well-positioned to lead in the emerging Internet of...

Business Wire -- Women in Technology (WIT), the premier organization contributing to the success of professional women in the Washington, D.C. area technology community, announced winners of the 22nd Annual Leadership Awards at a Gala held virtually on Thursday, May 20,...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - This week: manufacturing is expected to remain strong through year's end; Taiwan shows supply chain growth; why warehousing costs are still rising in the post-pandemic world - and more news headlines from the electronics industry.

Enterprise -- Information Week - Leaders have a responsibility to keep women in tech and help cultivate their career growth. Here are a few measurable actions that can help.

Aspencore -- Power Electronics - Junko Yoshida, our Global Editor, is leaving EE Times today.



As we all know, Junko has spent several decades at EE Times building the legacy brand of Aspencore publication and media portfolios.



We will really miss her.

Aspencore -- EETimes - Junko Yoshida is retiring.

She is retiring as the global editor of Aspencore, a publishing house with handful of titles, but Junko started with EE Times, spent decades here, and EE Times is still her professional passion.

This is my second stint...

Tech -- The Verge - The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is officially returning to an in-person format in Las Vegas in 2022, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced today, marking the return of the largest tech conference in the world next year.

"We're...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - This week: Growth in industrial networks continues despite the global pandemic; shipments of desktop and notebook computers and workstations remains strong; a new shortage of this component is unlikely to impact automotive production -...

Media -- Electronics News Post - On April 8, 2001 the first edition of the Woodstock Wire was published. Over the last 20 years the newsletter has offered the readers 497,000+ stories - all hand curated. Many thanks to the loyal [...]

Media -- Components in Electronics - Following feedback from across the sector, the deadline for entries in the Electronics Industry Awards has been extended to Friday 30 April.

The extension to the deadline will allow businesses from across the electronics market...

Media -- eBOM - Some distributors say their sales to the automotive supply chain are rising because of semiconductor shortages, rising electronic content in cars and the trend towards electric vehicles.



Automotive represents a small percentage of electronics distributors'...

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