UK-based automotive OEMs and Tier 1 manufacturers will meet over 80 supply chain companies at three specialist business building events in November, seeking to source more locally produced components to boost the £4.5bn automotive supply chain industry.
Farnell's engineering website, element14 is offering the DK-LM3S9D96 development kit for the Stellaris ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontroller from Texas Instruments at a promotional price of £238.
The growing market for NFC (near-field communications) for financial transactions in smartphones could see annual shipments of NFC chips rise to more than 1.2 billion by 2015, says research from In-Stat.
Mouser Electronics is now offering SEGGER embedded development tools.
Rapid Electronics has signed a distribution agreement with CamdenBoss to now sell its full range of terminal blocks, DIN rail, plastic and metal enclosures.
Energy harvesting comes to the fore with electric vehicles because the price they pay for being environmental and exhibiting many performance advantages is that they have limited energy available.
IDTechEx examines the use of energy harvesting to charge traction batteries in the new report Energy Harvesting for Electric Vehicles 2011-2021
Mouser Electronics has created a website to provide product and design information for solar technology.
The cold reality of the global slowdown could be a double-digit decline in the PC semiconductor market this year, says market watcher Gartner.
DRAMs used in smartphones are set for remarkable triple-digit growth in shipments this year, outpacing the expansion of the entire DRAM market by a factor of three, according to an IHS iSuppli.
Throughout 2010, USB continued its run as the most successful interface ever, with over 3.5 billion devices shipping worldwide, according to market analyst In-Stat.
Farnell has teamed up with Eurocircuits to provide quick-turn bare board PCB prototyping services in Europe.
Arrow is working with suppliers Altera and Freescale to offer an Ethernet Powerlink evaluation kit for the development of automation control systems.
Ethernet Powerlink is an open standard (IEEE 802.3) for real-time data transmission in automation systems.
Farnell is stocking Amphenol's TMM range of contact spacing connectors.
Rohm Semiconductor has announced that its subsidiary OKI Semiconductor will change its company name to Lapis Semiconductor.
Ismosys has become AMD's latest sales and marketing representative partner in Southern Europe.
Acal is continuing with its plan to be a global supplier and manufacturer in a number of specific product and technology areas.
And it seems to be working.
USB chipset firm Future Technology Devices International (FTDI) has strengthened its commercial presence in Asia Pacific by signing a distribution deal with Yosun Industrial.
Is there a saviour technology in the pipeline for the solar industry?
The market share of high-efficiency crystalline silicon (c-Si) photovoltaic (PV) cells is expected to more than double by 2015, according to market analyst IHS iSuppli.
Digi-Key has signed wireless module supplier LS Research in a global distribution agreement.
