Silicon Valley layoffs are a boon for tech-hungry farm equipment makers, Reports Reuters

SOURCE: REUTERS Big agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers in the American Midwest are on a mission to lure Silicon Valley tech workers who have been caught up in a wave of hiring freezes and layoffs, executives told Reuters. Mass layoffs at major tech firms have opened the talent pipeline for Illinois-based Deere & Co. (DE.N) – the […]

ECIA GIPC Publishes Report on Paperless Certificate of Compliance Initiative

Pilot program phase one completed  Atlanta— The Global Industry Practices Committee (GIPC) has published a report outlining the results of a two-year initiative to create a streamlined process to digitally exchange manufacturer Certificate of Compliance documents. Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) agreed to participate in the pilot project with Digi-Key. They began with the manufacturers’ certificate […]

Component Counterfeiting: On the Verge of a Future Without Fakes?

SOURCE: TTI MarketEye Blog By Murray Slovick For all its high-tech advances, the semiconductor industry has been extremely vulnerable to counterfeits, which pose an estimated $200 billion risk per year to the global electronics supply chain. Global chip shortages make this risk even greater. A shortage of components will push purchasers towards the grey market and […]