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The silicon wafer market experienced a market boom between 2016 and 2018. In 2018 alone, silicon wafer shipments reached a record high of 12,732 million square inches (MSI), which was up 8 percent from 2018. Despite 3.6 percent market growth through 2019, however, certain areas of the silicon wafer industry have experienced a minor slowdown,…
The issue of counterfeit electronic components unknowingly entering into OEM product designs has always been an inherent risk, but as counterfeit suppliers have gotten more sophisticated in their approach and have succeeded in entering designs ranging from life-saving medical devices to military equipment, the electronics industry has of late been rushing to uncover solutions to…
Nothing is immune to change in the manufacturing industry. As consumer needs change along with advancements in technology, manufacturers do not, nor do they ever, have the option of remaining idle — or at least remaining idle with the expectation of retaining market share. In order to accomplish consistent market growth, or even remain competitive,…
It is easy for OEMs to consider their storage facilities, if they have such facilities at all, as entities that transcend time. Storage, by its very nature, typically is not really associated with innovation as much as keeping status quo. In other words, what gets stored should, presumably, maintain its same form and function for…
Imagine that your product sits on a shelf directly next to your competition. Now imagine that your customer strolls by with their shopping cart and considers each carefully. He or she picks the product up, reads the labels, perhaps shakes it a few times, and then, almost arbitrarily, decides which to take and walks away.…
While we all love to read the word “free” and take advantage of whatever service or product is being offered, we have also grown to view the term with a degree of skepticism. By virtue of us offering the world’s largest free electronic component search engine, this is a skepticism we are used to seeing.…