News: Rochester Electronics
Rochester keeps businesses moving, then and now
Supporting customers and suppliers for 40 years W
hen Rochester Electronics was founded by Curt Gerrish in 1981 the pace of technological
advancements within the semiconductor industry began to result in a significant increase of end-of-life (EOL) components. Customers with long product lifecycles, and a need for ongoing “spares and repairs”, were met with increasing component obsolescence critical to their applications. What were initially thought to be inexpensive component replacements, often resulted in costly re-design and re-qualification. With over 20 years of experience working at Motorola Semiconductor, Curt identified this need and established a vision which has become Rochester Electronics. Providing customers with an ongoing source of supplier authorized components following EOL; while ensuring a traceable, certified, and guaranteed supply supporting high- reliability and industrial customers with longer product lifecycles. Today Rochester has over 70 supplier authorizations (which include acquisitions) with over 15 billion devices in stock encompassing greater than 200,000- part numbers warehoused in the United States at our Newburyport, MA, and Portsmouth, NH locations. Our factory-direct offering negates the need for expensive testing. Rochester is AS6496 compliant. Moving beyond in-stock inventory, the Rochester vision has expanded to include licensed manufacturing which began with the transfer of an Intel Military Product line in 1995. This led to an enhanced customer quality and reliability program that resulted in Rochester achieving ISO9001 certification in 1998.
Fast forward to today, Rochester has manufactured more than 20,000 device types. With over 12 billion die in stock, we have become the world’s largest die bank and have the capability to manufacture over 70,000 device types. Our build-to- order (BTO) devices use information and technology transferred directly from the OCM. All product is sold with the OCM’s full
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approval under the original manufacturer’s part number.
Also available at our Newburyport, MA location is our manufacturing services. Our portfolio includes a hermetic assembly line fully developed with QML certification to MIL-PRF-38535 and we have achieved plastic assembly qualification. Rochester’s in-house testing services, DSCC QML approved to MIL-STD-883, received QML Space Level Certification in 2007. Providing high-quality testing solutions for both suppliers and customers alike, a reliability testing lab with QML certification, archive, and analytical services were added.
Supporting customers requiring design and authorized product replication, we established our first U.S. Design and Technology office located in Rockville, MD in 2008. This team can replicate an original device with full support from the original device manufacturer. The result is a form, fit, and functional replacement guaranteed to the original datasheet performance. No software changes required. A second team was added in 2016 located in Burnsville, MN specializing in analog design capabilities. Most recently, in December 2021, we proudly announced receiving a letter of conformance, confirming our Quality
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Management System (QMS) complies with the requirements of the standard: IATF 16949:2016 for the Design and Manufacture of semiconductor components. Obtaining this letter demonstrates our commitment to providing customers with the highest standards of products and services within the automotive industry.
Rochester’s rapidly expanding sales office footprint includes our global sales headquarters centrally located
on the Newburyport campus with our APAC headquarters in Singapore; Japan headquarters in Tokyo; and EMEA headquarters in St. Neots, UK. Branch sales offices are in Arizona, USA; St. Petersburg, FL, USA; Beijing, China; Shanghai, China; Chengdu, China; Shenzhen, China; Osaka, Japan; Toulouse, France; Warsaw, Poland; and Munich, Germany.
On the topic of digital sales and service, 2021 marked the 5-year anniversary of our online program which has evolved well beyond its initial unveiling. Today
rocelec.com content is available in 11 different languages serving customers around the world. In founding Rochester Electronics as the worlds’ first authorized distributor of EOL components, Curt Gerrish is respected as an industry pioneer. A lot has changed in 40 years, but not Rochester’s determination to make customers glad they called. This principle is engrained in everything we do. Rochester is focused on providing authorized solutions to meet the ever- growing needs of the semiconductor industry anytime, around the globe, now and in the future – Rochester is here to keep your business moving.
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