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Distributors Take Power

Power One is marshalling its distributor network to take full responsibility for selling its range of embedded power products.

Farnell Goes Further For Altera

Farnell is to stock and sell Altera FPGA and CPLD products in Europe. The deal comes just weeks after the companies agreed a partnership to cover Asia/Pacific.

electronica: TTI Trio Take Vertical Route

Passive and connector specialist TTI is creating a raft of business units in Europe which will focus on specific vertical markets. Transportation, military/aerospace and medical are the first to be targeted.

electronica: Winning start for EBV Elektronik

EBV Elektronik's electronica week got off to the best possible start when the company was named Distributor of the Year Award at the Elektra 2008 Awards, organised by Electronics Weekly.

Mr Halla Goes To Washington

Brian Hall, CEO of National Semiconductor packed out a press conference on the eve of electronica and he was in a chipper mood as any first time grandfather has every right to be, showing the assembled hacks pictures of Mr & Mrs Halla cuddling their twin grandchildren - a doubling of yield as he remarked.

Woe, Woe . . . And More Woe

Mmm, not great tidings on the eve of electronica. DMASS (Distributors and Manufacturers Association of Semiconductor Suppliers) reports a decline in European revenues of 8.3% in the third quarter of 2008 against last year.

Gongs All Round At Avnet

The National Electronic Distributors Association (NEDA) held its annual executive conference last week and honoured two Avnet executives.

Where Are They Now?

OK, an occasional, nostalgic ferret back through the industry's history to recall a few companies which in their day were punching in the heavyweight division of distribution, and which  all ended up in the same place;

Plotting a Programming Path in Poland

I received a press announcement today which cheered me up no end on a dreary old day in West Sussex because it is another harbinger of not just the spread of electronics technology, but how the roots are taking hold

No Business Like Show Business!!

I like exhibitions. They are terrific networking events, and a chance to meet a whole group of people in one place, and some you would struggle to meet anywhere else.

Top 10 Distributors in 2008?

Our sister publication EDN (www.edn.com) published its top 10 globaldistributors by sales in 2007 earlier this year

TTI, FCI C I2I

TTI and connector giant FCI have hooked up to develop a microsite which will aid engineers select and obtain flex connectors simply and quickly