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China takes the lead in automotive LiDAR

Yole Group  announces the release of its  ‘2025 Automotive LiDAR Report‘, highlighting a new chapter for the global LiDAR industry. Indeed, after a period of hesitation and market bifurcation between passenger vehicles and robotaxis, 2024 marked a major turning point: LiDAR adoption in passenger cars is accelerating, particularly in China, and is now the key engine of

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News Supply Chain Management

2025 headwinds deliver blow to UK manufacturer confidence

EAMA has launched its latest Market Pulse quarterly report at Innovation Zero. The new analysis reveals that while the supply chain saw a positive upturn towards the end of last year, reaching a three-year high point for electrification related sales in Q4 2024, there has been a worrying drop in business optimism, falling below the

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Market Analysis

Changing fortunes in component market drivers?

By Adam Fletcher, Chairman of the Electronic Components Supply Network (ecsn) For the past decade or so the primary driver of the global electronic components market has been the demand for the latest innovation in cellular mobile phone (CMP) handsets and related infrastructure. The Automotive sector occupied position two followed by the high-performance computing (HPC)

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Industry Insights

Avnet insights: engineers outline opportunity for AI

For the fourth consecutive year, Avnet will release its Avnet Insights survey, which has been keeping a pulse on how engineers are responding to the market since 2021. This year’s survey examines technology’s new frontier: artificial intelligence, and the promise – and challenges – it presents for product design. Preliminary insights include: Engineers are optimistic

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Market Analysis

Power electronics industry: facing rapid expansion in manufacturing capacity

In 2023, the global power electronics market, including discrete devices and modules, was valued at $23.8 billion. It is projected to grow at a CAGR of 7.0% from 2023 to 2029 to $35.7 billion in 2029, announces  Yole Group  in its  ‘Status of the Power Electronic Industry’, 2024 edition. The discrete market, valued at $15.5 billion in 2023,

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Market Analysis

August sees positive traction in electronic components sales

Positive market sentiment expressed by participants in the electronic components supply chain improved in the August measurement as it reached 108.4 in the index and is sustained in the September outlook with a 107.9 score. “This is an encouraging upward trend following a June measurement that fell below the 100 threshold and caused concern regarding

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Market Analysis

Japan’s return to semiconductor manufacturing: a strategic rebirth

One only needs to look back a few decades to see when the semiconductor landscape had Japan on top, controlling over 50% of the market. However, since then, a combination of geopolitical pressures, particularly from the United States, alongside increasing competition from rival Asian nations like South Korea and Taiwan has led to a steep

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Industry Insights

Where are new advanced fabs being built currently?

Across the globe, a race is on to construct new advanced fabs (semiconductor fabrication plants), so where are these cutting-edge facilities being built exactly? The fab landscape Owing in large part to the current tense nature of the geopolitical landscape, countries across the globe have been pushing increasingly to build more semiconductor fabrication facilities, especially

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