Across the world, manufacturing companies are struggling to maintain electronics supply continuity, battling against a tide of components shortages as well as sudden and wildly fluctuating product demand. How are OEMs dealing with this perfect storm? Some clues are...
Global semiconductor sales dropped 2.4% in February compared to the previous month, with China's falling fastest at 7.5%, according to data released yesterday by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). In numbers, this represents a global decrease of US $0.9...
The world’s biggest chipmaker, Intel Corp, said it’s still maintaining above 90% on-time delivery of its products from factories worldwide, according to a Bloomberg story posted here. Bob Swan, Intel’s CEO, posted on the company’s website that he is “inspired by...
As the electronics industry grapples with production and supply chain issues, new figures published by SEMI from the Global Purchasing Manager Index (PMI) – a key indicator of manufacturing activity – points towards an imminent industry decline. Mainland China...
The Indian government is worried about over-dependence on Chinese electronics and will start looking to “broad base” suppliers. China's share in India’s import of electronics and IT may have dropped below 40%, from a former high of 55% between 2015-16, but the...
A survey by the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) claims that nearly 75% of companies polled are experiencing supply-chain disruption due to coronavirus-related transport restrictions, and more than 80% say their organisation will be impacted by Covid-19...
ADS, representing the aerospace, defence, security and space sectors, has been analysing the Government’s response to COVID-19, and what this might mean for the industry in both the short and long term. As it’s a rapidly changing situation, we’ll be checking in...
The impact of Covid-19 on electronic component suppliers has to be understood within the context of global manufacturing's reliance on Asia, as highlighted in this EPN article and some research into the problem by Resilinc (image shown Copyright Resilnic). Parts...
A recent Digitimes research report predicts a huge 19.5% drop on year in Q1 2020 of smartphone shipments by the top four China-based brands - that's 11% more than forecast back in January. Coronovirus could impact Q2 predictions even harder, as labour shortages and...