March 2009 Archives

Plus Opto is working with computer board firm Blue Chip Technology in a new co-ordinated approach to the embedded display system market.

Mouser Electronics has signed a distribution agreement with Elprotronic, which specialises in flash programmers and design services for programmable MCUs from Texas Instruments.   

Distributors looking to cut back inventory in the current economic climate may care to take a look at Surtech Distribution.

Web referrals are the latest trend in the distribution market.

A few weeks back, RS flagged an agreement with Microchip and now Farnell has announced a referral programme with Omron Electronic Components Europe.

Arrow Electronics has stepped up its activities in the European LED lighting market.

Rutronik is bringing its STMicroelectronics franchise line to the UK.

Bosch Sensortec has signed a global distribution agreement with Digi-Key for its MEMS-based acceleration and pressure sensors.

RS Components is joining Hitex in a one-day ARM microcontroller conference at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham on 19th May.

There will be a shortage of DRAM sometime in the future.

Well, yes that is the nature of the semiconductor supply. Balancing supply and demand has always been a bit tricky.

Suppliers visiting customers along with their distributors can still pay off.

Arrow Electronics has stepped up its sales activities in the LED lighting market with an online partnership with LED supplier Cree.

But is it fair to say Arrow has been a bit slow to respond to the LED lighting opportunity?

Digi-Key will carry Aptina's range of imaging products as part of a worldwide distribution deal.

If you thought that TDC would disappear from view inside Avnet when the broadliner bought parent company Abacus last year, well, not a bit of it.

Amplicon has come up with a good idea, a series of webinars providing technical information, which we are assured will not be a thinly veiled product pitch.

'Windows XP - Dead or Alive?' is the topic for discussion in the first webinar.

Advanced Power Components has received a big component order from Amplifier Technology, part of Wessex Technology Group.

Part of a project developing electronic surveillance and counter measure subsystems, the distributor anticipates that this will be the first of several contracts to be awarded as the technology is rolled out.

Orders in the last six months for components used in this type of application have totalled more than $1,000,000.

APC is benefiting from the acquisition of Novacom Microwave in April 2008.

The web is changing the cost model of component distribution for ever,

If there was any doubt about the impact of the web on the distribution business all discussion has ended as the economic downturn puts the squeeze on margins.

Avnet Memec always said that the White Electronic Designs franchise was a big plus from the Azzurri acqusition last year.

So little surprise that the distributor is rolling out the military and aerospace chip franchise outside the UK & Ireland to Italy, France, Nordic, Germany, Switzerland and Turkey.

Charcroft Electronics has come up with a new spin on the traditional distribution relationship.

It has become part of a novel type of acquisition where a customer has taken control of a troubled supplier.

Powersolve is stocking a range of 1A switching regulators which are designed to be drop-in replacements for inefficient 78XX series linear regulators.
 

Alpha Micro Components has added u-blox' AMY-5M to its portfolio of GPS components.

It claims this is the GPS industry's smallest standalone receiver, and at 6.5x8x1.2mm it is small.

Aha, as I thought..component prices should be coming down. It's only natural in an economic downturn, or is it?

According to new figures from marketwatcher iSuppli, it is possible that component pricing has already hit rock bottom in many commodity categories.

RS Components has cut the prices of over 45,000 electronic components.

Is this a sign that it is cheaper to buy products via a website, or simply a move to protect sales in an economic downturn?

Achronix Semiconductor, the fast FPGA firm, has named Acal Technology as its pan-European distributor.

Yes, if you talk to Silica and EBV Elektronik.

Silica has taken on the radio frequency identification (RFID) chip line of Impinj.

Fellow Avnet company, EBV has created a sales team whose job will be to target RFID customers.

A nifty carbon footprint calculator is available on the website of EBV Elektronik.

As part of its environmental initiative, called Ecomise, the distributor has set up a calculator which allows you to inpurt data and then calculate the carbon footprint of your home and lifestyle.

What size is your carbon footprint? Find out.

RS Components has added around 5,000 additional products from Panasonic to its catalogue and website.

Reference designs are no longer only available from specialist design firms, even the broadline distributors offer them.

Arrow has teamed up with embedded hardware and software firm Everex to create a development platform for ARM-based processors from Samsung and Freescale.