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Wurth While

More Wurth products will be cascading on to the catalogue and web site of Farnell.

WEEE and RoHS - Room For Improvement

Mandatory collection targets equal to 65 per cent of the average weight of electrical and electronic equipment placed on the market by EU member states over the past two years is the latest proposal under the WEEE and RoHS directives.

Update: Low Visibility Clouds AFDEC's Gloomy Forecast

AFDEC's lousy outlook for the component distribution market in UK and Ireland (see yesterday's blog) says as much about the changed structure of the electronics industry in the UK, as the impact of the current financial crisis.

Low Visibility Clouds AFDEC's Gloomy Forecast

The UK and Ireland component distribution market will fall by 9 per cent in the first half of 2009 according to industry association AFDEC. The organisation declined to issue a forecast for the whole year for the first time in over 20 years of forecasting the market due to economic uncertainties and a chronic lack of market confidence.

Who Knows?

So the downturn is upon us, the US is officially in recession, semiconductor sales are on the skids again and everybody's asking when it will all end.

Web Works For Farnell

Farnell has put a lot of time and energy into its web site, and it is paying off in increased sales and the laurels which accompany such achievements.

The Future Is Actel

Future Electronics has strengthened its FPGA armoury by signing a global agreement with Actel.

The deal becomes effective in the European, Middle East and Africa markets from January 1, 2009.

Demand creation skills and its access to a broad array of markets have won the deal for Future. It covers the full range of Actel products including the low power Igloo and ProASIC FPGAs, Fusion mixed signal FPGAs and the RTAX family of high reliability FPGAs.

Vishay Tells Time - "You're A Winner"

Avnet Time has picked up the Best Performance on Passives award for 2008 from Vishay Intertechnology.

Avnet Cracking Tough Nut

Japan has long been a tough market for western distributors. A little by little approach has gained a foothold, but not much more.

Video Makes The Power Supply Star

Engineers using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are about to get help on power supply design techniques.

Gleichmann Glad To Debut Displays

RCL Displays? Ever heard of them? Thought not. Well you may be about to hear a bit more as they start to pull together an official European distribution network.