Like Arrow, Avnet has two primary businesses: they resell a wide range of components to electronics manufacturers, and they sell computing products to corporate IT departments.
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The only problem is that cell phone manufacturers recommend against using strong chemicals including ammonia, alcohol, or other detergents which could damage the components and electronics in the phone.
At current exchange rates the increase was 13.3 percent for the company that also produces watch components and electronics, has its own distribution network, its own retail stores and owns and manages museums for some of its better-known watch brands.
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Galli sold VerticalNet's largest asset, a broker of electronics components, to focus solely on software.
The problem is that the size of components in conventional electronics means it would take an eternity.
This followed a March 2011 tsunami in Japan that brought the delivery of components to Thai electronics manufacturers almost to a standstill.
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Berkshire saw revenues rise down the list of the companies it holds in businesses ranging between railroads, auto insurance, electronics components and RV-makers.
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Now, though these elements are critical components of many electronics, China overwhelmingly controls the supply, and the government is curtailing exports and driving up prices.
But in Asia we have a very real technology sector - the makers of PCs, semiconductors, peripherals, all sorts of electronics components that are used in computers and telecommunications equipment.
"These results open the potential for visibly transparent polymer solar cells as add-on components of portable electronics, smart windows and building-integrated photovoltaics and in other applications, " said study leader Yang Yang, a UCLA professor of materials science and engineering, who also is director of the Nano Renewable Energy Center at California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI).
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It stands foremost for innovative multimedia technology for which the BRABUS electronics specialists integrate state-of-the-art Apple components into the vehicle electronics of a Mercedes for the very first time.
The globalisation of supply chains has created a need to send electronics, computer components, precision equipment and the like around the world quickly.
The product comes with normal building components, decorations and then wires and electronics to put in lights, bells and other jazzy features.
The study, for example, assumes that companies such as Toshiba Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. that make components for the iPhone wholly assembled them in their home countries.
Having said that, there are some electronics manufacturing companies, the components makers, which are not cheap but have relatively reasonable valuations even in this phase of the rally.
Toshiba's ten major operational groups were pruned to just four: power and industrial systems, information equipment and consumer electronics, communication systems and electronic components and materials.
As a leader in liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and digital technologies, Sharp offers one of the broadest and most advanced lines of consumer electronics, information products and electronic components, while also creating new network businesses.
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While that might not sound like the most exciting thing in the world, the company's CEO says that it could not only drastically reduce the electricity wasted by electronics that currently rely on silicon components, but significantly reduce the size of the components as well.
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The Thailand floods impacted a number of electronics companies and constrained supply for some components and completed electronic products in C4Q 2011 and into 2012.
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Its consumer electronics and business electronics divisions, and its business making components such as screens and semiconductors, are strong and share enough features to gain from each other's presence.
Drawing on more than 150 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications and life sciences.
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Richardson Electronics ( RELL), which makes electronic components, ranks first with net cash as a percentage of share price of 56%.
Newly programmed engine electronics coordinate the perfect interaction of all new components and ensures not only maximum power yield but also exemplary low emissions that meet the latest emission limits.
But all of these, by the time they get to electronics, will be absolutely standard off the shelf components.
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However, the world of electronics, and most certainly the world of prices for electronic components, is not a static one.
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GaN switches convert power at higher frequencies than traditional components and can be easily embedded in virtually any electrical system from consumer electronics products to computer servers, HVAC equipment, industrial motor drives, and inverters for solar panels and electric vehicles.
The big consumer electronics companies, by contrast, make a wide range of both components and final products.
Although little known in the West until a spate of factory suicides in 2009 brought the company notoriety, Foxconn makes components, parts and assembles devices for many of the world's largest electronics companies including Hewlett-Packard Co.
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"In our electronics division, with strength in audiovideo products, a recovery in semiconductors and components, and structural reforms, we are making steady progress in improving profitability, " Sony chief executive officer Nobuyuki Idei said in a statement.
Mahwah, NJ, May 11, 2009- Denon Electronics, one of the world's premier manufacturers of high-quality home entertainment components, today introduced two high-performance Blu-ray products, each designed to make the benefits of high-definition video and audio more available and affordable.
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