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Connector Research Shows Pricing As Top Criteria

Bishop & Associates, the first port of call for anyone looking for top dollar research into the connector industry, has just released the results of its 2011 Distribution Survey.

Capacitor Lead Times Ease After April Spike

Looks like the panic buying is over in the capacitor market.

Semiconductor Growth Slows in June

Boring sometimes sounds reassuring.

DMASS Reports Rocketing Sales

First half of the year up 50 per cent. Second quarter up 70 per cent. Does anyone else out there get worried about such stratospheric increases? Or am I just being an old Jeremiah?

Component Makers Remain Wary on Manufacturing Ramp Up

Component availability looks set to continue to be tight for the next few months.

There's Good News and There's Bad News

And so amid the hoopla and yippie-i-o signalling great growth for the world semiconductor market, where sits Europe in the beanfeast to come?

Chip Market Recovery to Accelerate in 2010/2011

Delegates left the Future Horizons Semiconductor Industry Forecast Seminar into a chilly West London wind, which given the predictions they'd been absorbing may have felt like a gentle zephyr from the south of France.

Empty Shelves Spark Semis Sales Growth

The inventory cupboard is pretty much bare. The lights went out in September last year, and the response was a lock down on orders.

Semiconductor Shareholders - Look Away Now

There was little solace to be found at Future Horizons' Semiconductor Industry Forecast seminar in London. In fact it's a wonder delegates didn't wander out of the hotel and throw themselves under the Kensington High Street bound buses!

European Research Highlights Customer Preferences

Research into the perceptions of the European distribution market is thin on the ground. So hats off to Mike Maynard, the managing director of Napier, the UK-based public relations and marketing company.

It's Not All Bad News

Malcolm Penn, the guvnor of Future Horizons, a UK-based market research company has often been one of the more optimistic soothsayers poring over the runes (yes runes, not ruins) of the semiconductor market. 

Europe At Your Fingertips

What you need to know and more likely what you din't know you needed to know can all be found in a humdinger of a comprehensive report on global distribution.