Electronics

Fueled by U.S. consumer demand for semiconductors, South Korea continues to make huge inroads as China fades.

Humanoid robots are the future, but there is still work to do to develop them. In the meantime, companies should not wait to invest in today's robotics solutions.

In another boon for domestic manufacturing, President Biden awarded Samsung $6.4 billion for new semiconductor chip plants in Texas.

Samsung has overtaken Apple in overall phone sales as upstart Chinese companies take away market share.

The global inflation wave is also impacting multiple sectors, including the electronic components industry, logic, linear, discrete, advanced analog, and passive component prices are climbing and will continue climbing until macroeconomic conditions improve.

The worldwide inflation trend is causing problems in the electronic components supply chain by making parts more expensive and harder to procure, but mitigation methods exist to help OEMs, CMs, and EMS providers overcome the new challenge.

In this semiconductor lead time report, we describe how things in the electronic component supply chain industry are developing along with several interrelated crises cultivating unprecedented disruption.

Here is a comprehensive update on the global electronic component shortage, component lead times, and a forecast of when the parts crunch will end.

Sourcengine uses its robust market intelligence resources to create a thorough lead time report every quarter and features up-to-date availability information on a wide range of electronic components made by a slew of chipmakers including pricing and turnaround time forecasts through March 2022.

Several Japanese chipmakers halt production following an earthquake, Foxconn partially resumes production in Shenzhen, and DRAM prices to rise in Q2 2022.

Leading chipmaking executives and insiders believe the electronic components supply chain will grapple with lead time delays, availability issues, and pricing fluctuations throughout the coming year and into 2023.

The average microchip lead times have risen to a record 22 weeks which is being attributed to the extension of production and delivery dates to the Chinese government's power reduction mandates.

Every quarter, Sourcengine publishes a comprehensive lead time report covering the supply chain electronics industry and has established that the worldwide component bottleneck will not ease up until late 2021 or even into 2022.

Recently, electronics industry leaders and foundry service provider executives expressed their belief that the chip shortage will persist into 2023.

Although Foxconn’s bread and butter are fabricating electronic devices, founder Terry Gou believes its future is making battery-powered automobiles, and its close relationship with Apple could make it a big player in the future automotive industry.

In this white paper, we detail how large corporations and national governments are trying to resolve the global chip shortage, and how the complex nature of the semiconductor industry means there is no quick fix for the crisis.

In this white paper, we discuss why electronics OEMs, e-commerce represents have a tremendous opportunity, and why many online marketplaces are struggling with counterfeit product problems, however, companies can enjoy the benefits of digitalization without compromising their standards.

This white paper details why the last few years introduced an unprecedented level of disruption into the electronic components supply chain, and how OEMs can better address present and future challenges by embracing supplier diversification.

For the last five years, the semiconductor industry has been incredibly volatile, with abrupt shifts in geopolitical relations, devastating natural disasters, and changes in consumer buying habits have fostered irreversible changes within the sector, so how will things look in 2030?

Although supply chain managers understand that new technology can make the process easier, choosing the right tools can be difficult, thankfully, there are three digitalization solutions procurement specialists can utilize to address the challenges of the “next normal.”