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2025 Global Semiconductor Supplier Award winners

TechInsights has released its  ‘2025 Customer Satisfaction Survey’  along with the associated Global Semiconductor Supplier Award winners for the chip making equipment sector. Worldwide, participants were asked to rate equipment suppliers based on three key factors including supplier performance, customer service, and product performance. The award categories span customer service, assembly and test equipment, test subsystems, wafer

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Kontron and congatec to manufacture COMs

Kontron and congatec signed an agreement to cooperate in manufacturing computer-on-modules (COMs), whereby Kontron will manufacture the congatec COMs. The cooperation is expected to be extended to other areas in the near future. Kontron’s subsidiary JUMPtec and congatec, a company fully owned by Deutsche Beteiligungs, are both developers of COMs for embedded computing (COMexpress, COM-HPC,

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BAE Systems honours Solsta with supplier award

Solsta has received a Silver Tier Award from BAE Systems’ Partner 2 Win programme. Solsta was selected from a pool of suppliers that delivered exceptional performance and contributions to support supply chain success for BAE Systems’ Electronic Systems sector in 2024. John Macmichael, Managing Director at Solsta, said: “This prestigious award once again recognises the

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Mouser wins APAC e-Catalogue Distributor of the Year award

Mouser Electronics is thrilled to announce that it has secured the prestigious ‘APAC e-Catalogue Distributor of the Year’ award from  Molex  for the seventh consecutive year. This award recognises Mouser’s outstanding performance in the Asia Pacific APAC region in 2024, highlighting its significant customer growth, rapid point-of-sale expansion, efficient inventory management, and overall operational standards. Since 2018,

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Trailing Edge, ATGBICS ink EMEA sales pact

ATGBICS, specialists in compatible network connectivity solutions has appointed Trailing Edge Technologies as EMEA sales development representatives within the CEM and EMS market. Trailing Edge Technologies, headed up by Industry veteran Nigel Watts, are a team of highly experienced electronics and semiconductor professionals providing solutions to the growing issues of product obsolescence, lifetime support and

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US & China suspend majority of tariffs in 90-day deal

The United States and China announced a bilateral agreement to ease trade tensions by suspending a substantial portion of recently imposed tariffs, marking a step toward stabilising relations between the world’s two largest economies. In a joint statement, the two governments acknowledged the global importance of their economic ties and committed to a “sustainable, long-term,

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SEMI applauds bill clarifying CHIPS Act tax credit

SEMI has announced support of the Strengthening Essential Manufacturing and Industrial Investment Act (SEMI Investment Act), which clarifies that critical materials suppliers to semiconductor manufacturers are eligible for the Advanced Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit (Section 48D) created by the United States CHIPS and Science Act. Introduced by Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Thom

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Final funding approval for new Infineon fab in Dresden

Infineon Technologies has received final approval for the funding of its new plant in Dresden (Smart Power Fab) from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs. Infineon is expanding the site in order to meet customer demand for example for renewable energies, efficient data centres and electromobility. Infineon will invest €5 billion of its own

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Arm tops $1 billion in record quarter

Arm revenues topped $1 billion in a quarter for the first time in its history. “It marked a record breaking close to a strong year for Arm, driven by strong demand for power efficient AI compute from Cloud to Edge,” said Rene Haas, ARM’s CEO (pictured). For the full year, Arm’s revenue topped $4 billion

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Farnell wins two awards from Keysight

Keysight Technologies has awarded Farnell two awards for its business expansion and marketing excellence, making it the only European high-service distributor to earn multiple awards from the company in 2025. Keysight commended Farnell for its exceptional efforts and success in representing Keysight’s products and services in the market. Kari Fauber, Vice President of Global Partner

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