Woodstock Wire: Electronics Outlook

TTI -- TTI MarketEye - Remember when summers were for relaxation? Peaceful days at the beach building sand castles with your kids or playing a round...

Enterprise -- CRN UK - Channel attempting to handle global shortage of memory chips

Electronics Purchasing Strategies -- Industry analysts agree the semiconductor industry achieved one of its best second quarters in revenue growth, driven by the booming memory device...

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - Much of last month's decline was due to Hurricane Harvey, which is estimated to have reduced total output by about...

ElectronicsWeekly -- It looks as though we may have a $400 billion chip market this year, propelled by the astonishing ASP rise of memory. Q2 was $101 billion says...

EETimes -- After about three years and hundreds of billions of dollars in mergers and acquisitions, the consolidation of the global semiconductor industry...

DigiTimes -- The DRAM market has been historically the most volatile of the major IC product segments, according to IC Insights, adding that the average selling...

DigiTimes -- China-based LED chip makers, due to growing demand and production capacity expansion, will see total output value in 2017 increase about 30%...

BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily -- Micron's going to continue to benefit from a "tight" supply of DRAM chips, thanks to consolidation in the industry, says Goldman Sachs analyst...

Business Wire: Hardware -- According to IDC, total worldwide enterprise storage systems factory revenue was up 2.9% year over year and reached $10.8 billion...

TTI -- TTI MarketEye - For the past five years, 2012-2016, the connector industry achieved net income of 10.4% of sales. Stable connector prices and...

PRWIRE - Technology -- In the second quarter of 2017, worldwide server revenue increased 2.8 percent year over year, while shipments grew 2.4 percent...

Business Wire: Semiconductor -- Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ:LSCC) today announced the termination of the acquisition by Canyon Bridge Capital Partners, LLC ("Canyon...

Electronics Purchasing Strategies -- There are early signs that a price war is looming in the DRAM market, and it should be no surprise considering the cyclical nature of the memory...

Enterprise -- The Register - The Trump administration has blocked the purchase of a US semiconductor...

TTI -- TTI MarketEye - Global PMI Leading Indicators; Global Semiconductor Sales up 24% y/y in July; U.S. Electronics Shipments, Orders & Inventories;...

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - In July, the Industrial Supply Association's Distributor and Manufacturer indexes both fell, corresponding with...

Enterprise -- The Register - But HPE, IBM, Cisco and Dell weren't the major beneficiaries... Chinese ODMs were

In the server sales growth stakes the big Chinese...

DigiTimes -- Despite a slightly down first quarter, the semiconductor industry achieved near record growth in the second quarter of 2017 posting a 6.1% growth...

ElectronicsWeekly -- TSMC had revenues of NT92 billion (US$3 billion) for August 2017, up 28.4% on July and down 2.5% on August 2016. Revenues for January through...

DigiTimes -- Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has reported consolidated revenues of NT$316.793 billion (US$10.56 billion) for August 2017,...

DigiTimes -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reported consolidated revenues of NT$91.917 billion (US$3.06 billion) for August 2017,...

Design News -- Imagine one trillion connected devices. That's a thousand billion. The prediction that we'll see a trillion IoT devices in the next 20 years...

Global Purchasing -- New power MOSFET technology may get a running start in the market-thanks to supply chain woes.

ElectronicsWeekly -- Chip sales grew 24% in July compared to July 2016 and grew 3.1% compared to June 2017, reports the SIA July 2017 sales were worth $33.6 billion...

EETimes -- Chip sales increased in all regions and across all product categories in July, extending an impressive run for the semiconductor industry.

DigiTimes -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced August consolidated revenues increased 28.4% sequentially to NT$91.92 billion...

DigiTimes -- Worldwide brand motherboard shipments are expected to reach only 45 million units in 2017 and may drop further in 2018 as related demand continues...

Electronics -- Intel - In the late 1990s when I joined Intel, I was amazed that my cell phone allowed me make a call from almost anywhere. It...

SupplyChain -- EBN Online - Lead times on resistors are stretching out, which make make things hard for electronics OEMs.

DigiTimes -- Global DRAM module sales totaled around US$6.9 billion in 2016, down about 12% from US$7.9 billion a year earlier, according to DRAMeXchange....

DigiTimes -- Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$33.6 billion for the month of July 2017, an increase of 24.0% compared to the July 2016 total of...

EMSNow - Publishing --

Electronics Purchasing Strategies -- The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), representing U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing, design, and research, today announced...

TTI -- TTI MarketEye - August PMI Leading Indicators; 2Q'17 Revenue Growth - EMS/ODM Companies & Electronic Supply Chain; Japan Update; Semiconductor...

PR Newswire: Business Technology -- The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), representing U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing, design, and research, today announced...

TTI -- TTI MarketEye - The following tables break out global consumption of passive electronic components (capacitors, linear resistors and discrete...

ElectronicsWeekly -- Over half of the expected $80.9 billion 2017 capex spending will be for foundries (28%) and upgrades for NAND flash memory (24%), says IC Insights....

DigiTimes -- Following a substantial increase in semiconductor capital expenditures during the first half of 2017, IC Insights raised its annual semiconductor...

DigiTimes -- The supply of MOSFET chips is expected to remain tight through the end of 2017, which will buoy sales at Taiwan-based suppliers including Advanced...

DigiTimes -- Worldwide smartphone shipments are expected to maintain positive growth through 2021, according to IDC, which expects shipments to grow from...

DigiTimes -- The market for smart home applications, particularly smart audio products, is emerging as a new major battlefield among global high-tech giants,...

Mannerisms - ElectronicsWeekly -- 310.4 million wearables devices will be sold this year for $30.5 billion - $9.3 billion of which will be from smartwatch sales, says Gartner....

Electronics Purchasing Strategies -- IPC - Association Connecting Electronics Industries(r) announced today the July 2017 findings from its monthly North American Printed Circuit...

Business Wire: Semiconductor -- Toshiba is in continuing negotiations with three consortia of potential purchasers of Toshiba Memory Corporation.

Denver Post -- U.S. businesses added a healthy 237,000 jobs in August with broad gains across several industries including construction, manufacturing and leisure...

Electronics Purchasing Strategies -- Strong demand and rising prices for DRAM and NAND flash memory is driving capital expenditure budgets in 2017. Semiconductor capital spending...

TTI -- TTI MarketEye - August Flash PMI Leading Indicators; U.S. July Durable Goods; 4G Smartphone Demand in Emerging Markets Spurred Growth in 2Q'17;...

ElectronicsWeekly -- A shortage of components will hit premium smartphone sales in H2, says Gartner. "We expect a shortage of flash memory and OLED displays will...

ElectronicsWeekly -- Semiconductor capex will rise 20% this year, forecasts IC Insights. Although there was a slight pause in the upward trajectory in 1Q17, 2Q17...