Viewpoints

UK SMEs have toughed the downturn, and our relationship with these businesses has brought Anglia 5% growth in a flat economy, once again outperforming the market, writes Steve Rawlins, CEO Anglia Components. Anglia has continued to invest in its business over the year, expanding our franchise base, our team and our inventory and introducing new services. We launched Anglia Live, the first website ...

With UK electronics manufacturing increasing, investment in new designs rising and confidence slowly returning to the market, 2013 has been a pivotal year for both us and the CEM sector globally, writes Nick Jones, sales director, Wilson Process Systems. I am delighted to see the UK CEM market is on a definite upward curve and in a recovery phase. However, although ...

Over the past year or so, the world of electronics has undergone a period of massive democratisation – never before has electronics design and technology been as accessible or affordable to a mass audience as it is now, writes Glenn Jarrett, global head of product marketing, RS Components. Low-cost development platforms such as the Arduino, and particularly the Raspberry Pi, ...

A number of growth areas have emerged in semiconductors over the last decade – three of the most important are connectivity, mobility and energy efficiency due to the profound impact they have had on how we live, work and communicat, writes Mark Downing, senior vice-president, corporate strategy at Intersil. A climate of rapid technological innovation has transformed the consumer electronics ...

The past 12 months have been very exciting for power management, particularly when reflecting upon the new product development and project implementations in digital power, writes Patrick Le Fèvre, marketing and communication drector, Ericsson Power Modules. Before reviewing what happened during 2013, it is worth highlighting that the year had particular significance to Ericsson because this has been the thirty-year ...

Over the past few years, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have continued to face pressure to drive down costs in an economy (especially in developed countries) with little to no growth in end-markets. This prolonged economic malaise is leading some companies to take a fresh look at their manufacturing strategy, resulting in many increasing their level of outsourcing or even exiting ...

In short, 2013 has been an interesting year. Back in January it was hard to see many positives in the market but I think we have all been pleasantly surprised, writes Chris Shipway, managing director UK, Avnet Memec. 2013 has been a story of gradual improvement in both the UK electronics market and the wider economy and Avnet Memec’s business ...

2013 saw 4G networks continue to rollout worldwide, with 126 million LTE subscribers on more than 200 commercially launched networks, using 22 different frequency bands, writes Tim Haynes, CEO of Nujira. We even finally saw LTE launch in some parts of the UK, though rather than lament the late arrival of 4G, perhaps we should congratulate ourselves on the state ...

At first glance the Raspberry Pi looks like a simple programming board, not bigger than a credit card, with some ports. At second glance, it is exactly what it looks like. But this very simplicity resulted in an unparalleled success with approximately 1,000,000 boards sold in the first year. If each Pi is stacked end-to-end, it would reach the length ...

Earlier this year Plastic Logic announced that it had successfully developed the world’s first flexible image sensor array in collaboration with ISORG, a leader in organic photo-detectors and large area image sensors in printed electronics. This sensor was produced by combining a flexible organic backplane, developed by Plastic Logic, with a flexible organic photo-detector (OPD) developed by ISORG, to make ...