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Static electricity, also known as electrostatic discharge (ESD), is an electrical charge at rest, it builds and looks for somewhere to go. The discharge can cause three types of damage: catastrophic, latent and upset failure. Lightning is probably the most recognizable effect of static electricity. Generating millions and millions of volts, and we all know […]

Passive Component Market Update Market Update This MarketEYE installment provides current market conditions in January 2018 for passive electronic components with emphasis upon capacitors, resistors and inductors. The primary conclusion of this installment is that demand continues to exceed supply in key components, especially MLCC, tantalum and chip resistors and that the traditional slowdown in […]

  With growing frequency, we are being asked by customers, how much longer the shortages in passive components will last. The short answer is (no pun intended), at least until the middle of 2018, and in many cases, beyond that.   Some of these parts, ceramic chip caps in particular, started getting scarce in the […]

You know the drill: make a password with a hodgepodge of special characters, numbers, and letters, then change it periodically – or just ignore change alerts until a hacking scandal suddenly arises. You may want to rethink your strategy. Bill Burr, the man behind how we commonly think of devising passwords, recently told The Wall […]

MAZeT will display an innovative sensor solution for controlling LEDs at LightFair International in San Diego, CA and again at SENSOR+TEST in Nuremburg, Germany in May. The company’s MTCS-CDCAF color sensor is a fully integrated sensor chip in MAZeT’s JENCOLOR line, the first to include a true-color filter function, integrated signal amplification based on charge-to-digital […]

Open any magazine and it’s clear that applications for 3D printing are exploding. Yet one area that remains largely unexplored is the use of additive manufacturing for electronics. The convergence of electronics and 3D printing will have staggering implications for the electronics industry—particularly around printed circuit boards and rapid prototyping.   Not surprisingly, the 3D […]