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MIAMI – Component distributor All American Semiconductor is under new ownership. The company, including its 33 subsidiaries, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last May .
The firm's new line card includes active, passive, interconnect and electromechanical parts from some 25 suppliers, including Atmel, BI Technologies, ebmpapst, Fairchild Semiconductor, NJR, Ramtron, Renesas Technology, Seiko Instruments, Semtech, SL Power, Supertex, Taiyo Yuden, TDK and Tyco Electronics.
The firm's new line card includes active, passive, interconnect and electromechanical parts from some 25 suppliers, including Atmel, BI Technologies, ebmpapst, Fairchild Semiconductor, NJR, Ramtron, Renesas Technology, Seiko Instruments, Semtech, SL Power, Supertex, Taiyo Yuden, TDK and Tyco Electronics.
LONGFORD, IRELAND – Kimball Electronics will shift manufacturing from its plant here to Poland and layoff 66 workers, the company said.
AMSTERDAM – Royal Philips Electronics’ first-quarter profit was $420 million, down 28% year-over-year, the company reported today. Net income fell 75% year-over-year to $344 million.
Overall sales were $9.46 billion, up slightly from a year ago.
First-quarter revenue last year had benefited from a $1.2 billion addition from the partial sale of the company’s stake in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp.
Profit for the consumer lifestyle division, including music players and TVs, was $122 million, down 45% compared to first quarter last year; sales fell 5% to $4.2 billion.
Philips is Europe’s largest consumer electronics company.
Overall sales were $9.46 billion, up slightly from a year ago.
First-quarter revenue last year had benefited from a $1.2 billion addition from the partial sale of the company’s stake in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp.
Profit for the consumer lifestyle division, including music players and TVs, was $122 million, down 45% compared to first quarter last year; sales fell 5% to $4.2 billion.
Philips is Europe’s largest consumer electronics company.
PASADENA, CA – Search engine firm SupplyFrame has introduced an index to measure online demand by engineers for technical information on electronics components.
The SupplyFrame Index (SFI) ranks the activity of the Top 20 component manufacturers. The index "factors search and download activity collected across the major search engines on millions of components," said Jeff Curie, VP of marketing at SupplyFrame.
First-quarter SFI is available at http://content.supplyframe.com/SFI20.html.
The SupplyFrame Index (SFI) ranks the activity of the Top 20 component manufacturers. The index "factors search and download activity collected across the major search engines on millions of components," said Jeff Curie, VP of marketing at SupplyFrame.
First-quarter SFI is available at http://content.supplyframe.com/SFI20.html.
OTTAWA, IL – B&B Electronics Manufacturing Company has been acquired by Graham Partners. No financial terms were disclosed.
B&B designs, manufactures and markets communication products to the U.S. and European industrial markets.
B&B’s market within the industrial networking sector reportedly totals approximately $600 million, with major product niches projected to grow at a CAGR of more than 20%.
Graham Partners partnered with Inverness Graham Investments on the transaction.
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