Electronic Business offers up its annual accounting of the leaders in EMS (electronics manufacturing services) and ODM (original design manufacturing).
Converge reports that activity in the DRAM market remains quiet; demand for older Intel CPUs is creating a supply shortage; and demand for notebook drives continues to grow.
The Converge Market Intelligence team reports that the DRAM market is beginning to stabilize; shortages in low end processors will be common going forward; and quality is starting to become an issue in the IC market.
The industry group reports less-than stellar findings for the month of April, but said that expanding global consumer electronics demand will support continued growth in EMS industry sales into the foreseeable future.
In the first quarter of 2007, venture capitalists invested $7.1 billion into 778 deals, the highest quarterly dollar amount since the fourth quarter of 2001, according to the MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association based on data by Thomson Financial.
Who's up and who's down in the electronics distribution industry? Find out with Electronic Business' annual ranking of the Top 25 North American Electronic Component Distributors.
Staying one step ahead of the latest compliance acronym is taxing the distribution industry, but smart players are figuring out how they can work this directive-laden environment to their advantage.
According to Converge’s latest electronics supply chain update, the first three months of 2007 have not been friendly to the DRAM market, diversity and segmentation rule CPUs, and the general IC market is still somewhat flat overall.
PCB, semiconductor and U.S. new orders for electronic products were down in January, indicating signs of a slowdown, IPC report. See what other trends in computer and electronic products new orders are revealed from IPC.
While consumer adoption of the Vista operating system continues to influence the memory market and Intel CPU price drops have traders reeling, there has not been a tremendous amount of change in general IC market conditions.