Rutronik is now selling the entire Renesas Electronics product range throughout Europe.
But the big focus will be the automotive sector, with Rutronik taking on role of strategic automotive distributor for all of Europe.
It will come as no surprise that mobile device shipments continue to be the main driver for the global electronics market.
According to new figures from Gartner, mobile device sales will reach 1.79 billion units, while smartphones will reach 468 million units, representing 26% of the market.
Expectations for sales growth in the semiconductor market are slipping. This is largely due to worries about the consumer sector.
"We note that production at some computing and consumer manufacturers appears lukewarm even though we're heading into the back-to-school and holiday seasons," commented Rich Templeton, CEO at Texas Instruments, in yesterday's Q2 results announcement.
NAND flash memory densities will rise more than 40% in consumer devices such as mobiles and game consoles this year, says IHS iSuppli.
Avnet Memec has extended its European distribution agreement with Renesas Electronics to include industrial automation products such as IO Link, ERTEC and Ethernet controllers and PHYs supporting IEEE1588 v2 (Precision Time Protocol).
Solid State Supplies (SSS) has signed a franchise agreement with materials supplier W.L. Gore & Associates.
Premier Farnell has signed a global distribution agreement with Micrium, the embedded real-time operating system (RTOS) company.
Cookers and washing machines are not mundane items they are money markers for electronic component suppliers.
The market for home appliances will be worth more than $2bn in 2012, according to market forecaster, IMS Research.
EU legislation on the registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of Chemicals (REACH) has had a "severely negative impact" on the European electronics manufacturing industry, says Adam Fletcher, chairman of the Electronic Components Supply network (escn).
Traditional catalogue distributors are seeing strong sales growth as the market emerged from the problems of 2009.
But the power tool of this segment of the component distribution business is no longer the catalogue, it is the internet.
As the value of electronics in volume car production continues to rise, so do the business opportunities for components suppliers.
The sexy parts are the microcontrollers but the one component that is vital to almost all electronic in-car systems is the sensor.
Will the supply chain benefit from an unexpected rise in worldwide production of LCD TVs?
Quad-core microprocessors march on from strength to strength and soon we'll all have one.
No longer are desktop PCs the target but market research indicates that as much as half of the mobile computers shipped in 2015 could have quad-core chips.
Microsemi has reshaped its European distribution network, which now takes account its acquisition of FPGA firm Actel last year.
Many component distributors still surprise me with their lack of a serious internet strategy.
Alpha Micro Components is seeing big growth in the Wi-Fi market which now boosts more than a billion devices.
The distributor has added to its product offering for Wi-Fi modules with the products from GainSpan.
Mouser Electronics has signed the LEDiL line of LED lighting optics for high-power and lighting-class LEDs.
RS Components has been recognised for sales performance by power supply company Traco Electronics AG.
Samsung is claiming to be the biggest supplier of 3D TVs in the
It quoted data from market research company The NPD Group.
Samsung's unit and dollar share of 61% in the 3D TV market includes both LED and Plasma 3D TVs.
STMicroelectronics has selected Arrow Electronics to be a focus distributor for its SPEAr embedded microprocessor family.
