Capacitor distribution: exploring the fundamentals
Digi-Key Electronics’ vice-president, global supplier management, David Stein discusses some of the fundamentals underpinning capacitor supply and demand. The capacitor industry experiences shortages for a variety of reasons. To start, capacitors are widely used in various end markets with high output. The automobile and consumer industries are just two examples where sometimes thousands of capacitors are needed to build a single product. Secondly, capacitor suppliers have consolidated and some manufacturers have ended production of certain capacitors due to lack of supplier profitability, causing less supply and higher prices. Increasing factory capacity can take anywhere from 12 to 18-months and is…
TPP 450B Series 3×5” Power Supply offering Safety Protection Class II
Safety approved to IEC/EN/ES 60601-1 & IEC/EN/UL 62368-1 for Medical & Industrial applications. Traco Power launched its TPP 450 series…
New Vishay Intertechnology Through-Hole Inductor Packs a 420 A Saturation Current Into Compact 1500 Case Size
Designed to Replace Larger Solutions, Device Offers Continuous High Temp. Operation to +155 °C for Renewable Energy, Industrial, and Telecom…
EUROQUARTZ LAUNCHES NEW STATEK MINIATURE HIGH-PERFORMANCE QUARTZ CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS
Frequency control specialist, Euroquartz has announced availability of Statek’s new range of miniature high performance quartz crystal oscillators designed and…
Allegro’s new ACS37800 IC integrates power, voltage, and current monitoring with reinforced isolation
Single-chip solution simplifies industrial and home automation applications seeking to reduce board space and optimise energy efficiency. “Our newest power…
Independent distributors: Expect tight supply especially earlier in 2021
Electronics buyers will face longer lead times and some shortages in the first quarter, but it is unclear how long…
Antenom Antenna Technologies presents a new brick-based modular antenna methodology
Antenom Antenna Technologies presents a new brick-based modular antenna methodology for designing, training, and building antennas. There are metal cells,…
Take a peek at 2021 connector trends
2021 could be a wild ride, so Electronic Connector Company’s president, Bernard J Gizzi, encourages connector buyers to talk to…
MLCC supply is beginning to tighten
As lead times grow, expect the MLCC market to tighten throughout 2021. By TTI’s vice president of product and supplier…
Bel Power Solutions Announces BCL25-700-8 22/25 kW Liquid-Cooled On-Board Inverter Battery Charger
Bel Power Solutions, a Bel group company, announces the BCL25-700-8, a 22/25 kW bi-directional liquid-cooled on-board inverter battery charger with…
Distribution: past, present, future
Electronics Sourcing discusses history, acquisitions, challenges and recipes for success with Hughes Peters’ president, Mike Okel. Hughes-Peters might be a…
Independent distributors: Expect tight supply especially earlier in 2021
Electronics buyers will face longer lead times and some shortages in the first quarter, but it is unclear how long unfavorable buying conditions will last….
Pandemic limits distributors’ semiconductor sales
Chip sales declined in the first half, but demand bounced back in the third and fourth quarters and distributors expect to post modest semiconductor sales…
Buyers may face rising prices and longer lead times in 2021
Buyers are concerned there could be more shutdowns of electronics production in 2021 as uncertainty created last year by the pandemic carries over into 2021….
Supply chain regionalisation and allocations
Editor’s note: Chris Hood is vice president of global purchasing for EMS provider Plexus. Electronics Sourcing North America (ESNA) recently interviewed him about the purchasing…
Industry 4.0: manufacturing’s supernova
John Denslinger argues Industry 4.0 is a manufacturing supernova on Earth, both for industry and the people enabling its transformation. The fourth industrial revolution was underway long before the pandemic…
Domino effect on manufacturing
John Denslinger explores a decade of falling dominoes, each impacting the supply chain and driving manufacturers to explore significant changes to their global strategies. A domino effect is produced when…
Seeds of change
Made in the USA was once the preferred branding for manufactured products. It signaled high quality, American ingenuity and skilled jobs for citizens. Following the post war re-build of Japanese…
Acceleration of digital life
John Denslinger sees Covid-19 as a catalyst for significant and rapid change regarding the digitisation of our lives. For more than a decade we have imagined a digital world where…
Everyone is essential to recovery
In this article John Denslinger argues the best solution to a sustained recovery is a marketplace where all economic activity is seen as essential. Essential versus non-essential must be one…
Pandemic limits distributors’ semiconductor sales
Chip sales declined in the first half, but demand bounced back in the third and fourth quarters and distributors expect to post modest semiconductor sales growth for the year. When…
Distributors expect a rebound in business in Europe in 2021
While European distribution sales will end 2020 declining, most distributors believe business will bounce back next year as demand increases from automotive and industrial segments. The European electronics distribution business…
Some independent distributors see sales increases because of pandemic
Component demand from “essential” industries such as medical OEMs have boosted sales for independent distributors. Independent distributors say they have seen healthy demand and robust sales increases despite the slowdown…
Power supply production in China starts to get back to normal
Supply of AC-DC converters and DC-DC modules should not be a problem for buyers as production of power supplies has resumed. Buyers can expect normal lead times, ample availability and…
MPU market will grow as demand, prices increase
Increased computer sales during the pandemic has resulted in greater demand for microprocessors. Semiconductor buyers can expect average prices for microprocessors to increase about 3.2 per cent over the next…
Weaker demand and falling prices
However, the analog chip market will bounce back in 2021 as both demand and prices increase. Buyers can expect declining prices for analog ICs for the rest of the year…
Microprocessor market will bounce back
MPU demand will rebound in 2020 resulting in higher tags for processors used in computers and a return to sales growth Weaker demand and oversupply will result in the global…
Buyers can expect 30-week lead times and higher tags to continue for MOSFETs – by James Carbone
Chipmakers are increasing production, but it won’t be enough to reduce lead times until the fourth quarter at the earliest Semiconductor manufacturers are adding more capacity of metal oxide semiconductor…
