Components Technical Features
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By Victoria Fraza Kickham, May 04, 2012
As electronics distributors heighten their “total solutions” offerings, training and education are quickly moving to the top of their value-added services list.
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By Victoria Fraza Kickham, May 04, 2012
Channel partners to focus on key industry issues as they meet for EDS 2012 at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas this month.
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By Mat Dirjish, April 30, 2012
After years of looking at the LED/SSL market, it’s been a rather hard uphill struggle for OEM and designers. Getting the consumers to accept a new technology that’s more efficient and good for the environment has not been easy. But now leaders in the field believe things appear to be getting better.
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By Victoria Fraza Kickham, April 30, 2012
Distributors expand geographic reach with new services--Arrow Electronics opens new integration facilities in Brazil and India; Premier Farnell launches LED lighting project in Tanzania
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By Joe Desposito, April 24, 2012
In his editorial, Editor-in-Chief Joe Desposito mentions several breakthroughs in solid state lighting that had just recently crossed his desk including ones from Cree and Intematix.
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By Mat Dirjish, April 18, 2012
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By Peter Green, April 17, 2012
IR's Peter Green describes the circuitry that allows CFLs and LEDs to be dimmed by legacy triac wall dimmers.
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By Don Tuite, April 17, 2012
Today’s LEDs for lighting applications promise uncertain lifetimes, flicker migraines, and the dreaded droop. But that doesn’t mean they’re too good to be true.
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By Mat Dirjish, April 17, 2012
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By Victoria Fraza Kickham, April 16, 2012
Digi-Key, TTI, others launch programs designed to speed procurement and provide better access to services
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By Roger Allan, April 12, 2012
LED lighting continues to achieve greater efficacies. Still, greater attention is being paid to manufacturing and packaging developments to make it more cost-competitive with incandescent and compact fluorescent bulbs.
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By Sally Ward-Foxton, April 12, 2012
Validated conflict-free tantalum capacitors, the first of their kind according to AVX, have been shipped to Motorola Solutions. The devices consist of conflict-free tantalite ore mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of the “Solutions for Hope” initiative.
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By Victoria Fraza Kickham, April 06, 2012
IHS report reveals the five most prevalent types of semiconductors reported as counterfeits; analog ICs top the list
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By Mat Dirjish, April 04, 2012
Analog audio is just as popular as ever amongst audiophiles while attracting novitiates into the fold. With that, there is both continued and increasing interest in vinyl recordings and the equipment used to play them back. This includes the turntable, tonearm, and, most importantly the phono cartridge. This article describes the differences and pros and cons of the most popular phono-cartridge types.
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By Victoria Fraza Kickham, April 04, 2012
Distributors are playing up traditional strengths in IP&E while branching out into complementary products and solutions to meet energy market needs