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Advanced Interconnections Low profile, 1.0mm pitch Mezza-pede® SMT Connectors from Advanced Interconnections


feature screw-machined terminals in an over-molded insulator for superior performance and durability. Typical applications include tunable laser power, cable to board, and low profile board stacking. Available with customized options for automated assembly, in common and application-specific sizes.


German Component Distribution (according to FBDi e.V.) shrinks by 11.9% in the third quarter. Orders decline by 8%.


The slight hopes for a summer recovery of the component distribution market after the first COVID 19 wave subsided have not quite materialized. Sales of the distribution companies organized in the Fachverband Bauelemente-Distribution (FBDi e.V.) fell by 11.9% to EUR 708 million in the third quarter. Orders continued to decline, by 8.1% to 626 million Euro. The book-to-bill rate of 0.88 indicates a further weakening of sales until the end of the year. In a 9-month comparison, the distribution market is down 16%. FBDi Chairman of the Board Georg Steinberger: “The economic situation in our industry has sequentially improved slightly, but year-on-year sales are significantly below the already weak previous year. The weak order situation is not expected to lead to any major leaps in the coming months, despite positive signals from China and a “soft” second lockdown which has spared the manufacturing industry. There is still a lack of visibility in the short to medium-term business development.” However, the mood in the overall economy remains cautiously positive, despite


COVID-19, the US election and Brexit. Steinberger: “The PMIs (Production & Manufacturing Indices) published by IHS Markit in October remained above 50, suggesting faith in growth. Added to this is the hope for vaccines, which in the medium term will contribute to the normality of social and economic life and should give global trade a boost again. In the short term, things are likely to remain tight, and the next one or two quarters will probably be marked by caution and wait-and-see, with the corresponding impact on the industrial supply chain”. From an FBDi perspective, the question on further developments remains open,


according to Steinberger: “The focus of the current discussion on COVID-19 and the consequences should not obscure our view on which critical future tasks are waiting to be solved or at least need more direction and decision making. The large consensus on climate change and its consequences must result in corresponding decisions at a political level. The economic consequences of the current crisis - billions in debt, loss of tax revenue - can be translated into innovation leadership in the long term and key industries can develop in a growth segment with positive effects for both the environment and the economy”.


Low profile - board to board stack height (z-axis) options ranging from 2.9mm to 4.0mm (nom.). Robust design features screw- machined terminals and multi-finger contacts with a per contact current rating of greater than 1 Amp at 80°C ambient. Dual row configurations include 8, 14, 20, 30, or 36 total positions with other pin counts available on a customized basis. Request a sample, watch a video, or build a part number online at www.advanced.com Advanced Interconnections Corp. USA Tel: 1 (401) 823-5200 Email: info@advanced.com www.advanced.com


Powell Electronics now Europe’s largest Positronic


stockist Powell Electronics, the supplier of connectors and more for high-rel applications including defence, aerospace and industrial, is to become Europe’s largest stocking distributor of Positronic connectors following a franchise deal signed by the two companies. Powell will hold $2.5M of inventory at its new European warehouse and headquarters in Dublin, Ireland and focus on developing new business. Positronic builds high-reliability power and signal connectors for a wide variety of global industries from medical to deep space where failure is not an option for critical systems. Examples of the company’s range of versatile high-performance connectors include the Scorpion family, described by the company as ‘the


most versatile modular power/signal connector on the planet’, and the Combo D-subminiature families which offer a mixture of power and signal contacts in standard and high-density variations. www.powell.com


Lattice Launches 2nd Generation Security Solution with New Mach-NX FPGA for Next Generation, Cyber-Resilient Systems


Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable leader, today announced the Lattice Mach™-NX FPGA family, the second generation in its successful line of secure control FPGAs. Building on the capabilities of the Lattice MachXO3D™ family announced in 2019, Mach-NX FPGAs deliver heightened security features and the fast, power-efficient processing needed to implement a real-time Hardware Root-of-Trust (HRoT) on future server platforms, as well as computing, communications, industrial, and automotive systems. Mach-NX marks the third FPGA family developed on the Lattice Nexus™ FPGA platform in a year. “The race is on between bad actors trying to exploit firmware vulnerabilities and


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developers designing server platforms with the security features and performance to stop them,” said Patrick Moorhead, president and founder of Moor Insights & Strategy. “Protecting systems requires a real-time HRoT with support for stronger cryptography algorithms like ECC 384 and new, robust data security protocols like SPDM. For more information about Lattice, please visit www.latticesemi.com.


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