When demand hits all-time highs and prices are rising, it’s time to get serious about strategies for managing long lead times. Many specialists in the chip market predicted 2022 as a strong year for sales, with long lead times and rising prices continuing to...
When you are sourcing hard-to-find parts, there are many timely, safe, and secure options available, but it all starts with proactively determining your needs. Shortage mitigation demands resilience, creativity, and resourcefulness. And, almost two years after the...
Supply chain challenges impacting discrete manufacturing will continue in 2022, posing critical opportunities for resiliency. Though late 2021 reports from IC Insights and other industry sources indicated that discrete manufacturing was looking up, we see that...
Tracking semiconductor mergers provides a valuable window into the future market. After a year of major semiconductor mergers, NVIDIA’s merger with Arm was blocked by the FTC. Concerns about the largest-ever-proposed semiconductor merger included stifling competition,...
Focusing on predictive strategies can offer dramatic advantages to those looking for obsolescence options for legacy devices. Taking a reactive stance around obsolescence is common. With the many other challenges in sourcing, the focus on longer-term strategy for...
