Abbott’s second-quarter earnings showed a mixed bag with pandemic disruptions on the medical device side of the business, and sales of COVID-19 tests driving growth for the diagnostic side. Source: Abbott’s COVID-19 tests did the heavy lifting in Q2
Growing demand for power supplies, photovoltaic inverters and hybrid and electric car components is helping the power electronics sector achieve critical mass.Omdia, the London-based technology forecaster, discerns a transition occurring in the nascent market for gallium nitride and silicon carbide wide bandgap semiconductors as plucky startups are snapped up by established power IC manufacturers. Hence, […]
Bedford-based iRobot Corp. is bracing for the likely impact of China tariffs as soon as next month, as President Donald Trump’s trade war with China threatens to raise the costs of the company’s signature cleaning robots. Source: Roomba-maker iRobot still hurt by China tariffs – Boston Business Journal
MILPITAS, Calif. — July 21, 2020 — Global sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment by original equipment manufacturers are projected to increase six percent to $63.2 billion in 2020 compared to $59.6 billion in 2019 before logging record high revenue of $70 billion in 2021 on the strength of double-digit growth, SEMI announced today in releasing […]
The nation’s leading manufacturing index surged to a 14-month high in June, rebounding by 9.5 percent into expansion territory. The Institute for Supply Management’s PMI reached 52.6 percent last month from a level of 31.8 percent in May. Source: U.S. Manufacturing Rebounds to 14-Month High
The following slide deck was published by Lockheed Martin Corporation in conjunction with their 2020 Q2 earnings call. Source: Lockheed Martin Corporation 2020 Q2 – Results – Earnings Call Presentation (NYSE:LMT) | Seeking Alpha
Raytheon Technologies delivered the first AN/SPY-6(V)1 radar array for installation on the future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), the U.S. Navy’s first Flight III guided-missile destroyer. The SPY-6 family of radars performs simultaneous air, missile and surface defense on seven types of U.S. Navy ships. Source: News | Raytheon Missiles & Defense delivers first […]
Electronic Component life-cycles—the time between market introduction and formal end-of-life—are shortening. A large part of the world’s semiconductor demand is driven by consumer electronics, and this market typically has shorter and shorter product lives. Component obsolescence is affecting more companies, more regularly than ever before. Manufacturers in the automotive, industrial, medical, transport, aerospace and military […]
People looking for jobs after a hiatus often worry about career gaps, wondering whether employers will think it’s been too long since they worked. But for companies seeking skilled, experienced professionals, those are exactly the kind of people they need. It just takes a minute to get them back in the groove — and that’s […]
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has developed the world’s first*1 multilayer ceramic capacitor with a capacitance value of 1.0µF in the 01005 inch size (0.4×0.2mm), which is increasingly used in a wide range of mobile electronic devices including smartphones. Mass production of the GRM022R60G105M with a rated voltage of 4Vdc has already started and mass production […]
MTG Offers Sockets for Testing Small SMD Devices
Researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) exploit resistive switching property in halide perovskite materials to develop the basis for a new type of fast, low-power, nonvolatile memory. Halide perovskite materials exhibit a resistive switching property, which means that with the application of a voltage, the substance’s resistance will change. Source: Choosing Between 2D and 3D […]
