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Arrow Writes Off a Billion

The unremitting problems facing the electronic components market has caused Arrow Electronics to revise its fourth quarter results.

Arrow's call to ARMs

Reference boards based around the ARM processors are increasingly in demand so Arrow Europe has moved to fill the gap in partnership with hardware and software specialist.

Mouser Pushes On in Europe

Mouser Electronics, the Texas-based catalogue and online distributor has continued its roll-out into the European market place.

Marvell Makes a Mark at Memec

The Embedded World exhibition in Nuremberg is just under a week away, and distributors continue to alert potential visitors to the wares on their stand.

Talking Turkey

I recall from a few electronica exhibitions ago waiting in the taxi queue chatting to a visitor who owned a small electronics company in Turkey, and as the wait was a long one I got a good review of the Turkish electronics industry.

Farnell Quickens New Products Pace

New products continue to stream into the distribution market place and distributors are all finding faster ways to pass the news on to their customers.

In-Stat Adds to Chip Gloom

It seems every semiconductor market forecaster and their aunt have had their two pennorth or cents worth on the outlook for 2009. So it would be uncharitable not to let In-Stat, distantly related to this site through sharing a parent company, not have it's say.

Lamb on Future's Menu

A variety of new switch products could be on the European market soon following an acquisition by one of the US's leading switch suppliers.

Rabbit Runs at Mouser

Quick off the mark Mouser says it is the first distributor to stock the latest single-board computers from Rabbit, which is a Digi International company.

Mouser Victorious at Microchip Awards

   

Watch out! The top brass are on parade here as Mouser Electronics scoops the Outstanding Sales Achievement Award for 2008 from Microchip Technology. It has obviously been a pretty effective collaborative effort between the two companies, and the response from buyers was suitably upbeat. Mouser's sales of Microchip products rocketed by 84 per cent, and increased it's Microchip customer base by over 250 per cent compared with 2007.

Pictured left to right are Eric Hawthorne, corporate distribution communications specialist and Mitch Little, vice president, worldwide sales and distribution, both Microchip, Glenn Smith, president and chief executive officer and Mike Scott, vice president of active products, both Mouser and Malcolm Campbell, director of worldwide sales and distribution, Microchip.

Digi-Key Measures Up

Reach to design engineers is the Holy Grail for suppliers, and plenty, if not all, expect their distribution network to do the reaching.

Aerco look to strike with Wildcat

Aerco has beefed up its circular connector range by adding the the Deutsch Wildcat series, a new range of products which combine the performance levels of D38999 connectors with the compactness of the Deutsch MMC range.