Global sales of semiconductors were $34.4 billion for the month of April 2020, down 1.2% compared to previous month of $34.9B, but still 6.1% more than April 2019's total of $32.4B, according to Semiconductor Industry Association...
53% of new product launches within the electronics industry have been delayed or cancelled because of Covid-19, reports EET India. These are the conclusions of an online survey conducted by Dimensional Research of supply chain managers at OEMs with at least 500...
China's IC production has risen only 0.6% since 2014, reports IC Insights, and the country is likely to fall well short of its 'Made-in-China 2025' goal for IC devices. IC production in China represented 15.7% of its $125 billion IC market in 2019, up only slightly...
Networking chips - ASICs (application-specific integrated circuit) - are likely to rise in price during 2H20, according to a DigiTimes report. Stay-at-home activities during the pandemic has fueled a spike in demand for portable devices, including notebooks, with...
Counterfeiter are costing the global mechanical engineering industry as much as 7.6 billion euros per year, suggest a recent study by the VDMA, the largest network organisation for mechanical engineering in Europe. The study Product Piracy 2020 says damage has...
Manufacturers and those in electronics procurement should be building the necessary relationships in preparation for an increase in demand if orders return to their sector, recommmends EPSNews, the title for the electronics supply chain industry. They say that...
Asia-Pacific (APAC) data-center (DC) storage equipment market revenue surged by 23 percent year-over-year (YoY) in the fourth quarter of 2019 as uncertainty surrounding the U.S.-China trade war began to dissipate, according to Omdia.The strong fourth quarter...
More than half of electronics industry product launches have been delayed or canceled due to the pandemic, reports E-Commerce Times. Sourcing issues were the cause of product launch delays, according to 91 percent of those surveyed. The article references a new...
Fenghua Advanced Technology plans to invest $1.07 billion to build a high-end MLCC production base, giving the MLCC supply chain a much needed boost, reports SemiMedia. After the completion of the high-end MLCC base project, Fenghua's overall production capacity...
ADS, representing the aerospace, defence, security and space sectors, says deliveries of planes hit a record low in April, with just 20 aircraft delivered:13 single-aisle aircraft and seven widebody, reports Production Engineering Solutions. 370 aircraft order...