Category Archives: Supply Chain

Presto Adds New Executives to the Leadership Team

Meyreuil, France – November 20, 2019—Presto Engineering, an outsourced operations provider to semiconductor and Internet of Things (IoT) device manufacturers, announces the hire of two new executives: Sophie Vaucher, vice president Finance, and Alexandra Moulin, vice president Human Resources.
 
“We are delighted to add Sophie and Alexandra to our

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Presto Engineering Achieves EAL6 Certification for Secure Product Provisioning

Meyreuil, France – November 12, 2019—Presto Engineering, an outsourced operations provider to semiconductor and Internet of Things (IoT) device manufacturers, has achieved EAL6 (Evaluation Assurance Level 6) — an assurance and independent verification of very high levels of security to protect valuable data.
 
“Presto Engineering is a secured application

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Marvell Completes Acquisition of Avera Semi

Santa Clara, California (November 5, 2019) – Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Avera Semiconductor, the Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) business of GLOBALFOUNDRIES.  After working capital adjustments, the net deal consideration of approximately $600 million is being funded by a short-term bridge loan.  By

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Dialog Semiconductor to Acquire Creative Chips adding Industrial IoT Products to its Portfolio

London, United Kingdom – October 7, 2019 – Dialog Semiconductor plc, a leading provider of power management, charging, AC/DC power conversion, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® low energy technology, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Creative Chips GmbH, a prominent supplier of Integrated Circuits (ICs) to the Industrial

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CoreHW and RoodMicrotec to establish long-term supply chain partnership

CoreHW, a Finnish fabless semiconductor company offering state-of-the-art full custom IC turnkey solutions, IP and design services as well as own IC products, today announces its intention to enter into a long-term supply chain partnership with RoodMicrotec, a leading independent company for semiconductors supply and quality services.
 
Mr. Tomi-Pekka

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Custom ASIC: Staying ahead of the electronics component shortage

A shortage in passive components is causing massive spikes in product delivery lead-times the last years. The latest market report of Future Electronics stated lead-times for basic components like capacitors, MOSFETs and diodes up to 18–50 weeks. Recently, Mouser Electronics, reported more than 300,000 products in their system that are

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