Countries cannot be or continue being competitive without efficient links with global markets. Do the relationships Mexico has with various global EMS providers located in the country offer enough of a transfer of capital, know-how, technology, standard and value-added services to represent global value chain contribution from Mexico?
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Product Market Segments
Mexico: Could value chain limits impact electronics re-shoring?
China smartphone, tablet CAGR forecast into the clouds
Chinese smartphone and tablet market is still tracking to nearly double in 2013, with smartphones showing good momentum and tablets offering both lower cost and higher performance features to stimulate demand according to a recent research report by investment bank Credit Suisse.
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China, emerging markets drives worldwide smartphone adoption
Asia remains the largest market in terms of potential growth, with China leading the way well into 2017, and beyond. Credit Suisse’s global hardware team raised their smartphone unit estimates because of a faster adoption pace of lower-cost Android smartphones in China and emerging markets.
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Samsung v. Apple: Metrics on revenue, unit share, handset profits, usage
From 2007 to 2013 the mobile handset industry operating profits increased 3x to $51 billion. Companies manufacturing the smartphones highlighted in the report include Apple, Samsung, Nokia and HTC among others.
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Software license, product supply, support agreement for mobile chipset
Software licensing and product supply and support agreement between North American telecommunications company focused in the mobile and smartphone market and a China-based chipset provider for multi-media, digital cordless and VoIP industry applications.
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Q&A from Webinar: Cost Reduction Strategy in Semiconductor Operations
Webinar speaker Maximilian Staudinger takes time to answer additional attendee questions submitted at time of Webinar registration, or during the event, which the speaker did not have time to respond to during the event due to event time constraints.
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How connected computing will impact our lives
Whether it’s the latest wearable computing for the military yet to be deployed, or being able to program your wife’s driverless car for Disneyland using your smartwatch while she’s corralling your gaggle of kids throughout the house, more than 60% of IT firms surveyed said they plan …
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Electronics product flowchart for NPI
Most standard NPI business models contain four turn time variations. These include the standard five-day turn, a three-day turn, a 48-hour turn, and the increasingly-popular 24-hour turn.
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Understanding how semiconductor design engineers think
Design engineers need to know they are picking the best components for their design. But, it turns out their biggest fear is not knowing whether the component parts they choose will be reliably available for the entire life of the product they are designing.
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Electronics distribution: Choosing a global or regional distributor in a flat world
Your corporate procurement team manages your global distributor strategy while also observing situations in each country. In doing so, the team can better identify competitive distributors performing well. Two strategy methodologies the author suggests are bottom-up distributor selection and top-down distributor selection.
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