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- ITEC emerges as independent semiconductor equipment manufacturer to address chip shortage (06/07/2021)
  
  Fastest & highest productivity assembly systems & electrical test equipment; integrated smart manufacturing solutions using big data & machine learning for optimised Industry 4.0 automated production.
- Electronics industry survey 2021: how is our sector thriving in the face of change?... (06/07/2021)
  
  Award-winning embedded electronics consultancy, ByteSnap Design, has revealed the impact of COVID-19 and top strategies to survive adopted by UK companies during the pandemic in its new electronics industry survey report: Thriving in the Face of Change.
- Nexperia obtains 100% ownership of Newport Wafer Fab (05/07/2021)
  
  The Welsh semiconductor plant will be renamed Nexperia Newport & will focus on production of MOSFETs, IGBT, analogue & compound semiconductor automotive-grade products.
- Editor’s comment: “I believe the children are our future… (03/07/2021)
  
  Teach them well and let them lead the way”. So sang the late, great Whitney Houston in her chart-topping 1985 cover of the George Benson hit, ‘The Greatest Love of All’ – a song he recorded as the main theme of the 1977 film, The Greatest, a biopic of the iconic boxer, Muhammad Ali.
- EPDT's H2 2021 Electronics Distribution supplement now available online (02/07/2021)
  
  Included in this month’s EPDT July issue, the latest edition of this year's twice-yearly Electronics Distribution supplements, covering the world of electronic components distribution, is now available in print or digital editions.
- ecsn Chairman’s viewpoint: Strong demand in 1H 2021… (01/07/2021)
  
  In my last report for EPDT’s Distribution supplement, back in January 2021, writes ecsn chairman, Adam Fletcher, I suggested that COVID-19 had put an end to ‘normality’ in the global electronic components supply network, and that ‘change’ had become the only constant.
- Viewpoint: How to survive the semiconductor crunch… (01/07/2021)
  
  Market demand for semiconductors has exploded over recent months, as many industries now use these vital chips in increasingly large volumes across diverse applications. As David Stein, Vice President of Global Supplier Management at electronic components distributor, Digi-Key explains here, demand has reached heights that have snarled supply chains, creating a shortage of semiconductors – a result of the convergence of several different factors…
- Viewpoint: Addressing the global shortage of computer chips & electronic components (01/07/2021)
  
  Today’s modern world runs on computer chips. From laptops to smartphones, video games to smart home devices, the range of products that require chips keeps expanding. And with the rise of 5G & IoT devices, global demand for these components is surging to new heights.
- Europe’s standing in the global electronics market: David vs Goliath (01/07/2021)
  
  Europe’s global market share of electronics is falling, sitting around 8%. To put this in context, Apple & Samsung each claim the annual electronics demand of the whole of the region – a single company using as much as all of Europe!

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