Electronics Supply Chain News & Analysis

Arrow Buys IT Asset Disposal Service

Distributor gets another leg to stand on in the used technology market as well as a five year agreement with Computacenter, a European IT disposal service.

Chip Sales Grew 10% in 2014

SIA says chip sales reached $335.8 billion in 2014, a record, exceeding projected sales for the year with strong growth from memory and discrete parts.

Cornell Dubilier Acquires Illinois Capacitor

The capacitor manufacturer said the acquisition will expand its board-level power discrete business and open up opportunities for new customers in Asia.

Actions Semi Caps Tough Year

Chinese fabless chipmaker struggled with declining in revenue as a result of the highly competitive tablet market, corporate restructuring and a supply shortage from its foundry.

MagnaChip Rolls High Voltage 0.13 EEPROM Core

Designed for use in foundries, MagnaChip’s 0.13 micron embedded EEPROM core is said to decrease the density of memory blocks by as much as 50 percent.

Module Market Next Target for LED Vendors

Searching for a way to expand their product offerings and stave off profit margin losses, many LED suppliers are turning to the module market for future growth.

PCB Shipments Increase

December sales decline 1 percent despite sharp increase in orders.

Ceva Has Vision For Neural Network Processing

Ceva has included support for convolution neural networks within its licensable MM3000 DSP core. But the company is working to define a neural network processing architecture even better suited for computer vision and other tasks.

Display Makers Keep Focus on Larger Screens

Once concerned with how many units they need to ship each year, flat panel display vendors have changed their focus to area-demand growth and that trend will continue to move forward through 2020.

Intel Eyes Strategic Hub in the Home with Lantiq Acquisition

With the acquisition of broadband access gateway provider Lantiq, Intel broadens its offerings in the home gateway market with which it will use to create new Intel-based devices for the home.

SanDisk Targets Next-Generation of Connected Cars

With consumer demands increasing for more smartphone-like applications in vehicles, SanDisk has rolled out a NAND flash storage solution to enable future applications in automobiles.

America II Signs Franchise Deal with PanJit Semi

America II will have distribution rights in North and South America to PanJit's portfolio including MOSFETs, small signals, rectifiers, diodes and more.

Analog Vendors Extend RF Push with Enhanced GHz-Range Mixers

Two devices, one from Analog Devices and one from Linear Technology, are pushing the boundaries for RF ranges to take advantage of a growing opportunity in the telecommunications sector.

Chip Equipment Orders Up in December

December orders for semiconductor equipment vendors were up 12.7 percent from November order levels with a book-to-bill ratio of 0.98.

Microsemi to use Rambus Cryptography IP in FPGAs

Microsemi to use differential power analysis intellectual property in FPGAs targeted at the government and military sectors.

Arrow to Acquire German Display Company

Distributor to pay about $105 million for Modul AG, a maker and distributor of LCDs for the industrial and medical application sectors.

Banner Year for Automotive Chips

Strong sales of vehicles as well as increase chip content in automobiles led the automotive IC market to strong growth in 2014 reaching $29 billion for the year, a 10 percent growth from the prior year.

Chinese IoT Firm Makes Wireless-MCUs Around Xtensa

Chinese fabless chip company offers Wi-Fi-on-a-chip, including RF, built around the customizable Xtensa digital signal processor, licensed from Cadence.

Rambus' ReRAM Has Many Customers

CEO Ron Black has said that the resistive RAM technology that Rambus has been working on for three years is good for consumer applications but needs tweaks for industrial and automotive deployment.