India reveals plans to make electronics manufacturing its top industry
India has announced three new plans it hopes will make electronics manufacturing its number one industry. Law and Justice, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today explained that India’s previous efforts saw it grow its market share of global manufacturing from 1.3 percent in 2013 to 3 percent in 2018. Now […]
iNEMI/SMTA Technical Webinar Series
Proposed Testing Protocols to Align Connector Reliability with Application Requirements Tuesday, June 16 / 11:00 a.m. EDT (Americas) Since the 1980s there has been enormous growth in the use of electronic devices, which has driven similar, if not greater, growth in the number of electrical interconnects. As we become more dependent on these devices the […]
IDC Expects Worldwide Smartphone Shipments to Plummet 11.9% in 2020 Fueled by Ongoing COVID-19 Challenges
The worldwide smartphone market is forecast to decline 11.9% year over year in 2020 with shipments totaling 1.2 billion units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. The forecast follows the largest year-over-year decline in history in the first quarter of 2020 (1Q20). Smartphone shipments are now expected to decline 18.2% […]
COVID-19 Accelerates Digital Transformation in Quoting and Purchasing
Digital transformation has been coming for a while. The supply chain is more digital than ever before…and component purchasing is being enhanced as well. The silver lining in the COVID-19 cloud that is plaguing the electronics industry, and the whole world, is that it may accelerate that transformation.