Completed, new, and expanding data centers worldwide are shown below for Microsoft and Facebook as companies like Microsoft, Alibaba, Facebook, Amazon, Baidu, Apple, IBM, Google, Tencent and others hyperscale computing and benefit from data storage from distributed data centers and …
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Product Market Segments
Microsoft, Facebook meet hyperscale computing demand with data center footprints: Current v planned infrastructure maps
Commodity buyers for data center cloud hardware rack solutions transformed by supply chain outsourcing
Growing data center demand and bill of materials (BOM) line items impact how commodity buyers use contract electronics partners as global data center IP traffic is expected to grow 25 percent CAGR, five years through 2021, from 6.8 zettabytes per …
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China’s growing defense capabilities vs US top military firms a Thucydides Trap?
One Chinese defense company nearly doubled in size in just ten years, to US$60 billion in revenue. We list other Chinese defense firms (see graph)
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Top military electronic defense primes diversify, win lion’s share Pentagon procurement budget
1000s of contract electronics manufacturing providers support US military defense prime contractors. Read why the top 6 primes are diversifying.
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Global market share semiconductor industry
Nearly all supply chain market segments are on notice while US-China trade war outcome remains uncertain. For semiconductors, SEMI and SIA both expressed disappointment with tariffs on China and semiconductor-related imports. Stages of semiconductor production Tariffs will hurt US semiconductor …
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Trends impacting Taiwanese EMS, ODM margins and revenue
Will market share concentration among OEM customers help revenue growth for Taiwanese EMS/ODMs?
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Fast product launch new medical devices: 510(K) and FDA cleared v FDA approved
To help innovation, medical device firms bringing new product to market are not required to go through a strenuous testing process if their new device is substantially similar to one that has come before. But abuse has entered the system.
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Electronic product design automation software drives hardware product launch and EDA jobs
EDA tools becoming more important and sophisticated as electronics OEM and EMS manufacturing providers competed to bring product to market.
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Vehicle electronic control unit (ECU) consolidation targets the self-driving autonomous car
Today, one-third of the cost for a car is from electronics. This is expected to become 40% soon. We share how this takes place with details on car technology and features.
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5G Manufacturing smart factories target supply chain uncertainties
Ways manufacturing supply chains with smart factories will benefit from connected devices in the IoT age.
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