monthly per product investigating component alerts and supplier notifications. For companies who’ve experienced key
technical staff turnover or lack dedicated production resources, the problem intensifies. Product knowledge lives in people’s heads, and when those people leave or get stretched thin, component decisions slow down or get missed entirely until parts become genuinely unavailable. ByteSnap’s service operates through a
Component and software obsolescence
represents a persistent challenge for manufacturers supporting products with long lifecycles. Supply chain disruptions, discontinued parts and unsupported platforms threaten production continuity, with manufacturers typically spending 5-15 engineering hours
This collaboration brings Andes’ RISC-V
processor IP into the Quintauris ecosystem, a key step toward addressing some of the most pressing challenges in the open standard landscape. Working together, the companies aim to unlock mass-market adoption of RISC-V, especially in domains like automotive, industrial, and edge computing, starting from Quintauris’ automotive real-time reference architecture that will integrate the 32-bit ISO 26262 certified processor in AndesCore. The collaboration is expected to span with the rest of the AndesCore processor series. “This partnership with Andes is a
significant milestone in our mission to accelerate the industrialization of RISC-V,” said Pedro Lopez, market strategy officer of Quintauris. “Together, we are helping build a more aligned ecosystem that lowers adoption barriers and creates new opportunities for vendors and end users alike.” Through this partnership, the RISC-V
ecosystem gains a pathway to increase the interoperability and viability of its technology.
three-stage subscription model: • Stage 1: Product Understanding – ByteSnap’s engineering team reviews customers’ schematics and BOMs to understand component relationships, criticality, and potential risks, then prepares a monthly monitoring quote based on component count and complexity. • Stage 2: Continuous Component Tracking – Customer BOMs are loaded into ByteSnap’s component tracking system with alerts configured for lifecycle status changes. Supply chain relationships with major distributors provide early visibility into component availability shifts. • Stage 3: Impact Assessment and Recommendations – When component status
changes, ByteSnap assesses impact against specific designs, researches alternative parts and market stock availability, then provides strategic recommendations—only contacting customers when decisions or actions are genuinely required. “We don’t just forward notifications,” said
Dunstan Power, technical director at ByteSnap Design. “We assess impact and recommend action only when customers’ expertise is needed. Minor equivalent changes that don't affect designs? We handle it internally. Critical parts requiring board respins? Customers receive detailed assessments with options and cost implications. It’s about filtering signal from noise so technical directors can focus on strategic work.” OMaaS operates as a month-to-month subscription with no long-term contracts required. Monthly monitoring fees are quoted based on product complexity and component count. Redesign work – such as PCB layout changes, firmware porting, or compliance support – is quoted separately as project-based work, with customers free to use ByteSnap or alternative providers for implementation.
“Molex is excited to reinforce our commitment to the aerospace and defence market with the acquisition of Smiths Interconnect,” said Joe Nelligan, CEO, Molex. “Smiths Interconnect has a highly complementary portfolio of advantaged solutions that strongly enhances the platform established by our acquisition of AirBorn last November. The combination of Molex’s global scale, capabilities and financial stability with Smiths Interconnect’s complementary technologies, products, customers and footprint will enable us to expand our aerospace and defence business and support customers in new and innovative ways.” The acquisition is expected to close in the first half of 2026.
The first full customer approvals have been achieved, and the volume shipments of carbon fibre flats have started, marking the start of sustained deliveries to major wind energy manufacturers in the region. These flats, used in turbine blades as structural reinforcements such as in spar
caps, are designed to handle the rising mechanical loads as blade lengths increase. The demand for components like these has grown rapidly in recent years as India added a further 4.15 GW to its wind capacity in 2024, bringing the total to 50 GW. “Reaching volume production capacity in India marks a leap in our long-term plans to support the wind industry,” explained Kari Loukola, executive vice president of industrial solutions at Exel Composites. “By localising our pultrusion capabilities in India, we can supply high-performance components close to the point of use, helping our customers meet their business goals.”
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