April 10, 2012 For the footwear and apparel industry, the moment of reckoning came in the 1990s, when companies including Nike faced damaging revelations over their use of sweatshop... April 4, 2012 Mobile handsets will continue to be produced in-house for the most part in the future, with no rapid acceleration of outsourcing likely to take place, because manufacturers will... January 27, 2012 In 2011 the global supply chain was beset by not one, but two, significant natural disasters, altering buying behavior in the critical semiconductor component space during the... January 26, 2012 Global router shipments are poised to continue robust growth in 2012 after principal buyers of the equipment re-entered the market last year and further left behind the troubled days of... January 26, 2012 Following a year of expansion in 2011, the global electronics contract manufacturing business is expected to decline slightly in 2012, as continuing economic uncertainty in Europe and the United States... January 25, 2012 The combination of a very strong first half last year together with the continuing economic uncertainty in Europe and the United States will serve to severely constrict growth prospects... January 20, 2012 Bear Bryant, the famous American Football coach, once said that a coach should have a plan for every- thing—including a plan for being ahead and “a plan for being behind 20-0 at the... January 13, 2012 At the height of the global recession in 2008, many companies procuring semiconductor components missed a vital window of opportunity to tie down the prevailing low prices of that... November 3, 2011 Starting November 7, a new listing covering 16 optocouplers will be added to the Component Price Tracker (CPT) service from IHS iSuppli at information and analysis provider IHS... October 18, 2011 The prices of exchange-traded commodities have experienced record volatility over the past month. While the near-term global economic outlook has been downgraded and several... October 6, 2011 The boom of media tablets ignited by Apple Inc.’s launch of iPad devices in late 2010 continues to have significant impact on the consumer electronics industry. Concerned about the... July 22, 2011 Worldwide production of liquid crystal display televisions (LCD TV) conducted by outsourced manufacturers is expected to nearly double from 2010 to 2015 as plummeting prices and... July 21, 2011 Worldwide production of liquid crystal display televisions (LCD TV) conducted by contract manufacturers is expected to nearly double from 2010 to 2015, as plummeting prices and... June 30, 2011 Supply disruptions spurred by the Japan earthquake are continuing to cause pricing increases for general-purpose analog integrated circuits (ICs), components that are used in most types of... June 23, 2011 The Chinese industry faces a challenging summer this year as the powerful utility sector clashes with central government planners, with an upside price risk seen on diesel fuel as... June 17, 2011 Contract manufacturers accepting outsourcing jobs or taking on production duties for manufacturers will account for 90 percent of the world’s shipments of mobile PCs in 2011... May 23, 2011 The explosion at Foxconn’s plant in Chengdu, China, could result in a production loss of 500,000 Apple Inc. iPad 2 tablets in the second quarter, according to a new analysis from IHS iSuppli... May 11, 2011 The impact of the recession combined with rising sales of smart phones will deal a setback to contract manufacturers in the global cell phone market, limiting the companies to less than... May 10, 2011 The sell-off in commodity markets on May 5 was triggered by the growing anxiety about the strength of the recovery. IHS Global Insight expects that prices will stabilize... May 9, 2011 The impact of the recession combined with rising sales of smart phones will deal a setback to contract manufacturers in the global cell phone market, limiting the companies to less than... May 5, 2011 Disruptions spurred by the Japan earthquake and tsunami caused shipments of crystals to be delayed by four weeks in April compared to March, impacting the supply of a critical... May 4, 2011 Disruptions spurred by the Japan earthquake and tsunami caused shipments of crystals to be delayed by four weeks in April compared to March, impacting the supply of... January 31, 2011 Although the shortages of discrete components seen in 2010 are expected to continue at least until the third quarter of 2011, pricing for these parts is expected to reverse course... January 24, 2011 Following a 33.4 percent increase in revenue in 2010, the global electronic contract manufacturing industry will experience slowing growth in 2011, with sales rising by only 8.5 percent... January 13, 2011 The global outsourced manufacturing industry sits at a crossroads heading into 2011, according to market research firm iSuppli, now part of IHS... December 22, 2010 While the global electronics manufacturing services (EMS) industry has much to celebrate during this holiday season, including a return to growth in 2010 and another expansion... November 4, 2010 Standard logic components are in a state of allocation as suppliers continue to struggle to fill backlogs and decide on potential expansion plans, according to... October 20, 2010 The iSuppli teardown team just gotten their hands on the Samsung Galaxy Tab (GT-P1000) 7-Inch Android Tablet Communicator and has begun our analysis of the device... September 23, 2010 The good news for buyers of discrete components is that prices—which have increased sequentially during every quarter for more than one year—will begin an inevitable decline... September 22, 2010 After more than a year of increases, prices for discrete components used in nearly all electronic products are set to begin to decline in the first quarter of 2011 as demand softens... September 9, 2010 Component shortages have led to a traffic pileup in the global electronics supply chain, with major contract manufacturers facing a challenging supply imbalance characterized by... August 30, 2010 Component shortages have led to a traffic pileup in the global electronics supply chain, with major contract manufacturers facing a challenging supply imbalance characterized by... August 25, 2010 Much like the overall electronic components market, capacitors have experienced a surge in demand thanks to global consumer demand. Unfortunately, this demand has been... August 23, 2010 Much like the overall electronic components market, capacitor manufacturers have experienced a surge in demand thanks to global consumer demand. Unfortunately, this demand has been... July 27, 2010 Driven by fast growth at Apple Inc., leading Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider Foxconn Technology Group is set to take more than half of global EMS industry revenue... July 13, 2010 to make inroads into the dominant position of Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) in the mobile PC market, with the EMS share of shipments projected to more than double from 2009 to 2014... July 1, 2010 Various key commodity electronic components now are in a state of critically short supply, causing prices to rise and delaying deliveries of parts to customers to a worrying lengths... June 28, 2010 Various key commodity component categories in the electronics supply chain now are in a state of short supply, causing prices to rise and lead times for customers to obtain some products... June 15, 2010 Because of the severe travel disruptions caused by the eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland, iSuppli Corp. has rescheduled its 2010 European Briefing Series to December, 2010. iSuppli Corporation April 14, 2010 The Top 10 contract manufacturers of cell phones will experience a difficult 2010 following a year that upended their longstanding business models and dealt them unprecedented losses, according to iSuppli Corp... iSuppli Corporation March 19, 2010 While the end of 2009 brought improved availability for many commodity components, supply for most parts remains tight, according to iSuppli Corp... iSuppli Corporation February 3, 2010 Although the global electronics contract manufacturing industry is set to return to growth in 2010 after a painful 2009, the market still faces major uncertainties this year... February 1, 2010 iSuppli Corp. estimates the global electronics contract manufacturing industry in 2009 shrank to $261 billion, down $40 billion, from $301 billion in 2008. However, it shoulld be... |