U.K. Small Business Growth Collapses

The proportion of UK small businesses predicting growth has plummeted from 39% to just 14% in the last three months – with 31% of business owners scaling back their businesses and 30% saying they will struggle to survive between now and the end of June. The findings form part of a quarterly tracking study of […]

Memory Market Not Forecast to Exceed 2018 High of $163.3B until 2022.

Strong growth forecast to return to the memory IC market in 2021 (21%) and 2022 (29%). The most current 2017-2024 forecast for 33 major IC product segments (e.g., DRAM, 16-bit MCUs, power management analog devices, etc.) by market, unit shipments, and ASP was presented in the April Update to the 2020 edition of The McClean Report—A Complete Analysis and […]

Worldwide Tablet Shipments Continue to Decline in Q1 2020, According to IDC

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. – The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic furthered the decline of the worldwide tablet market as global shipments fell to 24.6 million units, down 18.1% year over year during the first quarter of 2020 (1Q20), according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. Detachables continued to grow and gain market share […]

Complete Enclosure Designers Kits from Phoenix Contact – In Stock at TTI

Fort Worth, Texas –  TTI, Inc., a leading specialty distributor of electronic components, offers Phoenix Contact’s ME-IO enclosure designers kit, ready to ship. The Designer Kit’s form factor offers a versatile base for prototype design activities. Design engineers can use the kits in their initial form or customize the enclosures. CAD files, the kit BOM, […]

How China Created Its Health QR Codes

Tencent Smart Gate

Experts agree that returning from Covid-19 quarantine to any new normal in Europe and the Americas will depend on better contact tracing. How will these countries accomplish that with the privacy laws in place? Podcaster Jordan Schneider explains how Alibaba and Tencent saw the opportunity and built the app that enabled China to get back to work.