Industry News
EPSNews, Hailey Lynne McKeefry
After a handful of years marked with component shortages, expanding
lead times, pandemic-related supply chain disruption and most recently a
ground war, “business as usual” is a relative term. The electronics
industry has been especially turbulent, but supply chain businesses see
both challenge and opportunity.
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EPSNews, Barbara Jorgensen
As the global semiconductor industry breaks ground on dozens of new fabs,
there’s a side effect that chip makers don’t like to advertise: product
obsolescence. Current supply chain dynamics could drive a large number
of end-of-life (EOL) semiconductors into short supply.
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EPSNews, Emily Newton
The electronic component shortage is likely to get worse before it
gets better. As a result, electronics prices are on track to rise this
year – and it may not be until late 2023 before prices begin to fall.
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The Washington Post, Jeanne Whalen
Federal
agents have begun questioning U.S. technology companies on how their
computer chips ended up in Russian military equipment recovered in
Ukraine.
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The Washington Post, Ellen Nakashima
The
Commerce Department on Wednesday announced it has frozen the export
privileges of three U.S. companies for the illegal export to China of
technical drawings used for 3D printing of satellite, rocket and
defense-related parts.
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Evertiq, Dennis Dahlgren
2022 has not even passed the halfway point and has already presented new – major – challenges for the electronics manufacturing supply chain. While the industry is doing all it can to alleviate current supply chain constraints – it still has to fight earthquakes, lockdowns and logistical headaches.
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EP&T, Peggy Carrieres
Since Avnet surveyed its customers in late 2021 about their
challenges with the component shortage, the industry is making slow
progress to finding an end to the current constraints.But when we
do get there, the electronics engineering world as we know it will be
fundamentally changed and stronger partnerships will be formed with
procurement and supply chain experts.
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Source Today, Bob Vavra
The imagery of a chain is a compelling one—interconnected links that
are both flexible and strong. That strength is wholly dependent on those
links remaining intact, however, and a supply chain is no different. The
breaks have come in several places in the supply chain over the past
three years.
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Plant & Works Engineering, Chris Johnson
A petrochemical processor was recently forced to make an emergency
shutdown to reveal that it was being supplied with counterfeit bearings.
Most people do not fully appreciate the scale of the counterfeiting
problem or the risks it creates.
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www.salon.com, Eric Schank
Some metals, like nickel and lithium, are household names; indeed, advertisements for batteries play on the exotic sound of "lithium-ion" as though it were a novelty, despite lithium's ubiquity in electric cars and gadgets. Yet the true drivers of the digital economy are the rare earth metals, without which modern electronic devices would not work. Once virtually unknown outside of geochemistry research, these metals, which include neodymium and praseodymium, as constituents of powerful magnets used in hard drives and computer speakers.
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