January 2012 Archives

Harting has named St Helens-based Northern Connectors as its specialist distributor of the year for 2011.

Digi-Key has taken on the LEMO ranges of push-pull connectors with a worldwide franchise agreement.

High reliability electronics manufacturer C-MAC MicroTechnology recently held a ceremony at its Great Yarmouth offices to recognise the performance of two of its suppliers.

Mouser Electronics says it has stock available for the BeagleBoard's BeagleBone Community Development Board.

Intended to work stand alone or in conjunction with existing BeagleBoard and BeagleBoard-xM, the BeagleBone Community Development Board is targeted at application developers enabling easy access to industry standard I/O's.

BeagleBone features the TI AM3359 processor, a 700MHz ARM Cortex-A8, 256-MB RAM, and a USB 2.0 port with the ability to supply power.

Typical applications are likely to include industrial robotics, web servers and Internet-enabled kiosks and in-vehicle systems.

The lighting sector has been relatively unaffected by the downturn and there are significant business opportunites, according to Mark Pinkney, the newly appointed marketing manager for Anglia's lighting business.

Vigilant Components is a new independent electronic component distributor.

It has been created to provide component sourcing, testing, counterfeit detection and verification services.

Acal BFi has announced the availability of alternatives to fast synchronous SRAMs made obsolete by the planned withdrawal of supplier Samsung from the market.

IMS Research predicts that by 2016 annual revenues from the smart gas meter market will reach over $1bn.

That represents a four-fold increase on the 2011 market estimate.

Pericom Semiconductor has appointed Broadband Technology 2000 as rep in the UK & Eire.

Anglia Embedded has appointed Paul Senior as divisional marketing manager for its M2M and embedded business.

Luso Electronics Distribution has signed an exclusive UK and Ireland distribution agreement with Veetronix for its range of switches and keycaps.

With CES 2012 in full swing in Las Vegas, it is worth remembering that Europe is and remains the world's largest Consumer Electronics market, predicts market researcher Gfk.

The gallium arsenide (GaAs) IC market seems to have slowed to stand-still.

GaAs power amplifiers are crucial components in mobile phones and it is a weakness in this area which has affected the market.

Andy King has been named vice president of sales for Arrow's EMEA components business.

Digi-Key has expanded its distribution relationship with Microsemi to include programmable logic devices including the SmartFusion range of SoCs, FPGAs and related evaluation boards.

Chip inventories held by semiconductor suppliers declined in the third quarter of 2011, according market watcher IHS iSuppli this ended the period of inventory expansion of the previous seven quarters.

The issue now is how to interpret this?

Farnell has added three new designs of LED lighting connectors to its range of JAE products.