Samsung Electro-Mechanics (Samsung Electro), the component affiliate of Samsung, said Thursday that it saw a turnaround in operating profits during the October-December period on the back of expanded clients and favorable currency moves. ...
At its inception more than thirty years ago, EBN was Electronic Buyers News. We talked about the newest products, from passives to power supplies. We talked about book-to-bill ratios and what these figures said about the health of our ...
Electronics manufacturers are used to harsh cyclical downturns often caused by their reliance on unverified assumptions about industry fundamentals. Even the biggest chipmakers, OEMs and other leading supply chain players have fallen ...
Tags: industry fundamentals, Electrical
When the Boston Red Sox in 2004 won their first World Series in 89 years, I noticed that the championship t-shirts, hats and other gear were on the streets of Boston within hours of Game 4. Knowing a bit about manufacturing, I found out ...
Tags: of LEDs, processors, drivers, Electrical
Electronic store chains lose another round to online. Where does it end? Are electronics store outlets doomed? It was indeed a merry Christmas for online retailers. Results for the season show a strong expansion of sales in the US, fueled ...
Tags: Electronics Retailers, Electrical
China's top smartphone companies challenged Samsung and Apple with surging sales and revenue in 2014, vowing to scramble for a larger share in a global turf war with the top two makers. As one of the major competitors, telecom behemoth ...
Tags: Smartphone, Samsung, Apple
Closely-held Outdoor Tech has engaged Wunderlich Securities of Newport Beach, CA for financial and strategic advisory services to help support the company’s current and future growth. Based in Lost Angeles in 2010, Outdoor Tech ...
Using a Camry hybrid prototype and a fuel cell bus, Tokyo-based Toyota Motor Corporation aims this year to conduct tests on the streets of Japan that will evaluate the performance of silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors, which could ...
3M has reported fourth-quarter earnings of $1.81 per share, an increase of 11.7 percent versus the fourth quarter of 2013. Sales grew 2.0 percent year-on-year to $7.7 billion. Organic local-currency sales grew 6.3 percent with acquisitions ...
Tags: income margins, shareholders, Construction
GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada has signed an agreement for Ecomal Europe to promote and distribute its gallium nitride (GaN)-based high-power switching transistors. GaN Systems' gallium nitride power transistors are based on ...
Tags: GaN Systems, high-power switching transistors, Electrical
Japanese electronics firm Fujitsu has granted JDSU of Milpitas, CA, USA its 2015 Distinguished Partner Award at its recent supplier event in Tokyo, Japan (which included more than 600 attendees). JDSU was the only optical solutions vendor ...
Tags: network architectures, Electrical
According to the Report on the Operation of the Electronic & Information Industry: January to November 2014, written by the Ministry of Industry & Information Technology (MIIT), in the first 11 months of last year, there was steady and ...
According to a new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of active fleet management systems deployed in commercial vehicle fleets in China was 2.1 million in Q4-2014. Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) ...
Global demand for fine-pitch LED display panels grew on year by 70% in 2014 and is estimated to hike at a CAGR of 110% during 2014-2018, but prices are expected to drop in 2015 due to possible oversupply arising from an increase in ...
Tags: LED Display, LED
Pasternack Enterprises Inc of Irvine, CA, USA (which makes passive and active RF, microwave and millimeter-wave products) has appointed Tim Galla as product manager for Active RF Components. Galla has more than 25 years of product ...
Tags: limiters, mixers, oscillators, circulators, Electrical