Woodstock Wire: Industry News

Media -- Evertiq - Distributors of electronic components play an important role in the electronics supply chain, being not only the link between the manufacturer and the developer - today some of them also offer a wide range of other services. Distributors are...

Media -- Components in Electronics - Electronics Industry Awards 2023

The submission deadline for entries to the Electronics Industry Awards has been extended until 15 May 2024 so make sure you visit The Electronics Industry Awards website to make your nomination.

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Think -- Forrester Blogs - In Forrester's Marketing Survey, 2024, nearly 900 global B2B Marketing executives and operations leaders indicated they expected an overall Marketing budget increase. Breaking that down further, 67% expected their technology budget to...

Media -- DIGITIMES - China's smartphone industry shipped a total of close to 160 million smartphones worldwide in the first quarter of 2024 and will see the volumes climb up further in the second quarter.

Tech -- FutureIoT - ABI Research says the electronics industry is characterised by increasingly sophisticated devices for consumer and industrial users. Contract manufacturers must be ready to ramp up production in time for varied product launch dates and gift-giving...

Tech -- GeekWire - Microsoft President Brad Smith. (GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong)Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith and his wife Kathy Surace-Smith have purchased a stake in the Seattle Mariners, becoming just the third additions since the team...

Electronics -- Samtec Blog - Researching famous women in electronics led me in many directions and specialties, like mechanical engineering and computer science, and would easily turn this rather ambitious blog post into a book! For this piece, I focus on three women...

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - The company plans to combine its OE trailer axle division with Wheelco Manufacturing Components.

Media -- DIGITIMES - According to industrial production statistics released by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) on January 29, the electronic component industry finally saw a year-on-year growth of 10.73% in January 2024, ending 16 consecutive months of...

Media -- SemiMedia - According to the latest report from TechInsights, global DRAM sales increased 79% year-on-year in the week ending February 16, 2024, and the 13-week moving average surged 79% year-on-year.

Aspencore -- EETimes Europe - The past few years in the electronics industry have been exceptional in many ways: a supply chain crisis throughout the industry, record lead times and backlogs for suppliers, and an air of desperation among customers. As we settle in...

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - The index is just the latest sign that prices picked up last month.

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - No business wants to be on the trailing edge of a technological revolution - but distributors must be wary of unintended consequences.

Aspencore -- EPS News - Unlike milk and bread, there's no expiration date advertised for our electronics. That doesn't mean they don't have them. Some components, especially batteries, lose performance over time, and internet-connected devices remain tied to their...

Media -- DIGITIMES - On January 4, 2024, the Consumer Technology Association, organizer of CES, released a press release titled "What Not to Miss at CES 2024", and AI was at the top of the list. A stark contrast to the 2023 pre-event press release, which focused...

Media -- Components in Electronics - Start as you mean to go on: enter The Electronics Industry Awards to be in with a chance of making 2024 your year of recognition and reward

Looking to stave off the January blues? Then why not submit an inventive product or...

Media -- eBOM - IPC Releases December 2023 Global Sentiment of the Electronics Supply Chain Report

Electronics industry sentiment took a dip in December with New Order, Shipment, and Backlog Indices falling, with only Capacity Utilization Index holding steady....

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - High interest rates, persistent inflation, slumping trade and a diminished China will plague growth.

Media -- Electronic Engineering Journal - The industry lost yet another pioneer last year, and his passing seems to have been largely unheralded. Don Lancaster was a prolific writer whose books and articles going back to the 1960s taught generations of electronics...

Media -- DIGITIMES - As regulators in the semiconductor supply chain, IC distributors have observed the upstream and downstream outlooks for 2024. They pointed out that there are uncertainties in the degree of recovery in the global market economy. Despite that,...

Aspencore -- EETimes - Is there a tried-and-true formula for balancing the need to constantly innovate with the demand to sustain business growth? That question and many more came up while developing Molex's recent report:

Electronics -- IEEE Spectrum - Buckle up! This is going to be a rollercoaster of a year in technology.



Seventy-eight countries are holding major elections this year, and they're doing so in an environment where fake images have grown more realistic and more prevalent....

Media -- DIGITIMES - Taiwan's export orders for electronics products surged by 3.5% year-on-year to reach $17.8 billion in November, driven by increased orders received by IC design houses and chip channel distributors. This marked a positive turn after 12 consecutive...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - Find out what's in store for 2024 regarding OEM market segment growth and component availability. Senior VPs Lew LaFornara and Jeff Ray address these topics in our TTI Executive Report.

Business Wire -- Supplyframe, a leader in decision intelligence solutions, and Jabil, a global leader in design, manufacturing, and supply chain solutions, have announced a collaboration to transform the electronics industry, leveraging artificial intelligence and automation...

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - What do buyers want?

Business Wire -- New market intelligence from Supplyframe Commodity IQ indicates that the electronics supply chain has entered the Goldilocks Zone for buyers. That means the climate is neither too hot nor too cold but largely habitable. Yet despite the moderation and,...

Media -- DIGITIMES - US export restrictions aimed at curbing China's development in advanced semiconductors have hit the field of AI. With huge untapped potential in the AI market, distributors in the Asia Pacific region can target the mid-to-low range for the...

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - The company said "Q" can synthesize content, streamline communications and help employees with tasks.

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - The electronics industry is at the center of the IoT and AI is accelerating innovation from autonomous vehicles to robotic manufacturing and advanced healthcare technology. Learn how electronics innovation is vital to maintaining the high...

Aspencore -- EPS News - Headlines about the electronics supply chain have a different ring to them now. What used to be pervasive discourse about shortages and disruptions is now about excess inventory and burn-off. Manufacturers and suppliers of electronics painfully...

Media -- Evertiq - The electronics industry is currently facing a skill shortage and the future of the industry depends on future engineers, thus it depends on the education of students. For that very reason, Evertiq is launching a scholarship - to be handed out...

Aspencore -- EPS News - As we near the end of the year, it's only natural to wonder what 2024 will bring to the electronics industry in terms of opportunities and challenges. No one has a crystal ball, but I've got some educated guesses about what's going to happen...

Aspencore -- EETimes - -Part of an ongoing EE Times series: Diversity & Belonging in EE.



Now is the time for the electronics industry, which suffers from a debilitating talent shortage, to

Media -- DIGITIMES - Texas Instruments Inc. gave a disappointing revenue forecast for the current period, indicating that demand remains sluggish for a broad range of electronic components, including industrial equipment.

Media -- Evertiq - There's been a lot of movement within the Polish electronics industry during the year. Evertiq has listed some of the bigger events that have taken place in the country during 2023.

Media -- Electronics Sourcing - Experts believe artificial intelligence will play a catalyst role in the evolution of the electronics supply chain. Adoption may be slow at first, though, but surprisingly, components distributors are already leading the charge...

Media -- Electronics Sourcing - SIA/Oxford Economics study estimates semiconductor industry risks 67,000 technician, computer scientist and engineering jobs going unfilled by 2030

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), in partnership with Oxford Economics,...

Media -- ELE Times - The electronics industry has long been a beacon of innovation, driving progress in various sectors and reshaping the way we live and work. From the invention of the transistor to the development of smart TVs, this industry has consistently...

Business Wire -- Supplyframe is celebrating 20 years of delivering forward-thinking solutions for the entire electronics value chain. Over the past two decades, Supplyframe has evolved amid a world of change and delivered innovative solutions for leaders in engineering,...

Tech -- FutureIoT - Nick Jones



Nick Jones, distinguished VP analyst at Gartner said, "All five of these technologies are potentially transformational and should be investigated now due to their wide scope and ability to enable new business models or significant...

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Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - Sensors have always played a vital role in communication applications by collecting information from various sources. By integrating microprocessors with the sensor to create smart sensors, the collection and transmission of real-time...

Aspencore -- EPS News - During Accelerate, Amazon's annual seller conference, the company announced Supply Chain by Amazon, an end-to-end, fully automated set of supply chain services that will provide sellers with a complete solution to quickly and reliably move...

Media -- Evertiq - PC's August 2023 Global Sentiment of the Electronics Supply Chain Report shows that though cost pressures continue to impact the electronics industry, product demand and inventories remain positive, leading to a healthy supply chain.

Aspencore -- EPS News - A wide array of products now include electronic technology, so original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are scrambling to understand how to navigate the supply chain landscape of buying high-quality components. Then a disruption threatens...

Aspencore -- EPS News - Electronic component sales trends, similar to the U.S. manufacturing index, saw improvement in July. Although both indexes are still in contraction territory, the ECIA's sales trend index (ECST) rose by 6.7 points in July to reach a level of...

Aspencore -- EETimes - The men who designed and crafted the first practical integrated circuit (IC), the type used in the computers to guide the Apollo spacecraft that made the first U.S. moon landing, were also the unintentional fathers of Silicon Valley.

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Media -- Passive Components News - European components distribution ended the first quarter of 2023 with surprisingly strong sales numbers for Semiconductors and Interconnect components while commercial passive components decreased. Semiconductors in Q1 grew by...

Electronics -- IEEE Spectrum - Morris TanenbaumSilicon microchip inventor Fellow, 94; died 26 FebruaryTanenbaum's research in the mid-1950s proved that silicon was a better semiconductor material for transistors than germanium, which was commonly used at the time. His...