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In the recent past, watching the latest NASA shuttle launch on television (or, if you were lucky, in person) was something of a once-in-a-generation or so cultural event that brought inspiration and wonder to all. When you heard that a new rocket was preparing to launch, you stopped what you were doing and watched because…
In 2016, Broadcom announced their intentions to acquire NXP Semiconductors for a whopping $44 billion. At the time, it was the largest single acquisition the electronic components industry had ever seen – and although the merger was cancelled in July of 2018, for a time it provided an appropriate capstone for what has very much…
Every supplier, following a thorough vetting process, is able to upload their inventory to the world’s largest free electronic component search engine and marketplace. While this in itself is a benefit, the act of uploading inventory comes with a variety of additional benefits that remain in place long after they first become a Partstat uploader.…
Today, the majority of the conversation regarding the exponential growth of the electronic component market centers around the automotive and IoT markets. Electronic cars, smartphones, and any consumer electronic device that connects to the Internet and collects data requires quality components and semiconductors. No market analyst can be taken seriously without mentioning these industries, and…
In the last decade, the evolution of ecommerce as it relates to electronic components sourcing has been nothing short of incredible. Despite the highly advanced nature of the inventory OEMs buy, store, and use to assemble their products, the actual process of procuring them through inquiries, quoting, and games of back-and-forth phone tag has largely…
The electronic components market today is in an odd place. Despite historic levels of growth and revenue on both the OEM and OCM side, it’s hard to have a conversation with either without hearing the word “fear.” Fear is manifesting itself in many forms: fear of OCMs not able to ramp up production to meet…