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Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - Sensors have always played a vital role in communication applications by collecting information from various sources. By integrating microprocessors with the sensor to create smart sensors, the collection and transmission of real-time...

Aspencore -- EPS News - During Accelerate, Amazon's annual seller conference, the company announced Supply Chain by Amazon, an end-to-end, fully automated set of supply chain services that will provide sellers with a complete solution to quickly and reliably move...

Media -- Evertiq - PC's August 2023 Global Sentiment of the Electronics Supply Chain Report shows that though cost pressures continue to impact the electronics industry, product demand and inventories remain positive, leading to a healthy supply chain.

Aspencore -- EPS News - A wide array of products now include electronic technology, so original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are scrambling to understand how to navigate the supply chain landscape of buying high-quality components. Then a disruption threatens...

Aspencore -- EPS News - Electronic component sales trends, similar to the U.S. manufacturing index, saw improvement in July. Although both indexes are still in contraction territory, the ECIA's sales trend index (ECST) rose by 6.7 points in July to reach a level of...

Aspencore -- EETimes - The men who designed and crafted the first practical integrated circuit (IC), the type used in the computers to guide the Apollo spacecraft that made the first U.S. moon landing, were also the unintentional fathers of Silicon Valley.

Computer...

Media -- Passive Components News - European components distribution ended the first quarter of 2023 with surprisingly strong sales numbers for Semiconductors and Interconnect components while commercial passive components decreased. Semiconductors in Q1 grew by...

Electronics -- IEEE Spectrum - Morris TanenbaumSilicon microchip inventor Fellow, 94; died 26 FebruaryTanenbaum's research in the mid-1950s proved that silicon was a better semiconductor material for transistors than germanium, which was commonly used at the time. His...

Media -- Electronics Sourcing - Component distribution is their bread-and-butter business but high-value demand-creation is what distributors thirst for as electronics industry seeks a return to normality.

After a lull in demand-creation activities during the...

Aspencore -- EPS News - Expectations for U.S. manufacturing growth have diminished since the Institute for Supply Management's year-end outlook in December. Revenue for 2023 is expected to increase, on average, by 1.7 percent. This is 3.8 percentage points lower than...

Aspencore -- EPS News - U.S. factory activity contracted for the sixth straight month in April as demand remains soft and end-customer inventories continue to build. The Institute for Supply Management's PMI improved slightly in April - by 0.8 percent - to 47.1. Any...

Media -- Components in Electronics - Industry professionals have until 30th April to enter an innovation, product, business or individual to win a highly prestigious Electronics Industry Award

The deadline for entries and nominations...

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - The new branch bolsters the company's footprint in the Mountain West.

Media -- Electronics Sourcing - EDS 2023 brings manufacturers, representatives and distributers together in one place to interact with decision-makers and build new business relationships



A refreshed EDS 2023 will combine insightful programming and new ways...

Aspencore -- EETimes Europe - Addressing the skills shortage is one of the five key objectives of the European Chips Act. Industry association SEMI Europe has reaffirmed its commitment by taking the lead of the European Chips Skills 2030 Academy, an 18-partner consortium...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - Today's battlefield has gone electronic. Read how modern armies must not only include high-tech, best-in-class equipment and available inventory but also ultra-reliable connectivity and innovative flexibility.

Media -- ElectronicsB2B - Advancements in in-vehicle infotainment systems and increasing demand for connected cars and real-time vehicle and traffic data are the major driving forces for this market Automotive IoT, the technology which integrates the Internet...

Electronics -- IEEE Spectrum - One looming artifact of the pandemic that remains in 2023-the global chip shortage-has gratefully begun to recede. Unlike the state of things in mid 2021-when crimps in the semiconductor supply chain cropped up in big ways-supply and...

Aspencore -- EETimes - After decades of eschewing electronics distributors as "middlemen" in the supply chain, automotive companies are finding value in the channel. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and tier-1 suppliers have integrated distribution into their...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - Though December 2022 showed a decrease in global semiconductor and connector sales, 2022 recorded an overall annual growth in both industries. China's ongoing challenges with COVID, the U.S. ban on selling high-end AI chips to entities...

Business Wire -- Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announce that company co-founder Gordon Moore died on March 24, 2023, at the age of 94.

Tech -- ExtremeTech - Bill Gates has become the latest tech mogul to weigh in on the recent elevation of AI into the zeitgeist. In a detailed seven-page letter about this...

Media -- Time - Business - The new GPT-4 artificial intelligence software from OpenAI has only been out for one day. But developers are already finding incredible ways to use the updated tool, which now has the ability to analyze images and write code in all major...

Media -- Time - Tech - It's been a mere four months since artificial intelligence company OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT and - not to overstate its importance - changed the world forever. In just 15 short weeks, it has sparked doomsday predictions in global job markets,...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - It has been about four months since OpenAI brought its ChatGPT system to proverbial life.

Since evangelists believe the consumer-facing artificial intelligence (AI) tool has changed the world forever, observers can be forgiven for feeling...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - The latest version of ChatGPT is now available via a waitlist.

ChatGPT-4 launched Tuesday (March 14) with a waitlist in OpenAI's application programming interface (API) and in ChatGPT+, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a thread on Twitter.

"It...

Media -- Evertiq - February 2023 electronic components sales sentiment powers past expectations, momentum carries into March outlook.

Media -- Electronic Engineering Journal - The first five articles in this series discussed early licensees of the Bell Telephone Labs (BTL) transistor patents in the US and Europe. However, one more geographic region was actively involved in transistor development...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - AI is looking to significantly impact the future global search engine market as powerhouses Microsoft, using OpenAI ChatGPT, and Google, with LaMDA technology, compete to become the most dominant search service.

Media -- Electronic Engineering Journal - Last November, we celebrated the 75th anniversary of the announcement by Bell Telephone Labs (BTL) of the transistor's birth. Many articles about the early transistor developments have appeared, but I started to wonder...

Media -- Electronic Engineering Journal - Last November, we celebrated the 75th anniversary of the announcement by Bell Telephone Labs (BTL) of the transistor's birth. Many articles about the early transistor developments have appeared, but I started to wonder...

Media -- Electronic Engineering Journal - Part 1 of this article discussed the spark that ignited the commercial semiconductor industry. It was the 1952 Transistor Symposium conducted by Bell Telephone Laboratories (BTL). A book published by BTL called A History...

Media -- Electronic Engineering Journal - Last November, our industry celebrated the 75th anniversary of the announcement by Bell Telephone Labs (BTL) of the transistor's birth. I knew that many facets of the transistor's invention would be well covered so I didn't...

Media -- Electronics Sourcing - ECSN chairman, Adam Fletcher In this article, ECSN chairman, Adam Fletcher and market analyst, Aubrey Dunford, summarise the results of the association's annual Forecast

The Forecast predicts the UK and Ireland electronic components...

Distribution -- TTI MarketEye - Learn how from the first half of 2021 versus the first half of 2022 all market sectors except mil/aero, computers, peripherals and consumer products saw year-over-year sales increases and the top three market sectors by sales in the first...

Distribution -- Disti Blog - European components distribution finished 2022 in record fashion as both semiconductors and IPE (Interconnect, Passive and Electromechanical) reported increases sales.

According to DMASS surprisingly strong semiconductor sales and normalising...

Distribution -- Industrial Distribution - Officials expect weaker growth in all the world's top economies - the U.S., Europe and China.