PHOENIX - Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas has expanded its franchise agreement with Amphenol to include its high performance connectors and cable assemblies. Other terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Amphenol Alden Products are used in medical, instrumentation and harsh-environment industrial Ethernet applications. They offer a line of auto-coupling connectors, high-voltage, and custom overmolded cable assemblies.
HONG KONG — Wong’s Kong King (WKK) Distribution Ltd. and Source Electronics have opened their first joint programming facility, in Hong Kong. The two companies plan to open a programming center in the Shanghai area and in two more undisclosed locations in the near future. Hong Kong-based WKK Distribution is an electronics equipment and materials distribution company. Source Electronics provides IC programming and testing to assemblers and semiconductor manufacturers.
SEOUL -- Samsung has agreed to pay $90 million for its role in fixing prices on DRAM devices. Samsung was among several chipmakers under federal investigation for allegedly colluding on DRAM pricing.
More than $730 million in fines have been levied and four companies -- Samsung, Elpida Memory, Infineon
and Hynix -- have pled guilty.