• James Carbone

    Freelance Writer

    Jim Carbone is a freelance writer covering the electronics supply chain. A veteran journalist, Jim was a writer and editor for Electronics Purchasing and Purchasing magazines for 21 years. He covered electronics distribution, semiconductors, passive components and connectors for the magazines. He also wrote extensively about the strategic purchasing strategies of electronics OEMs and electronics manufacturing services providers. Before covering the electronics industry, Jim worked as a reporter and editor for United Press International for nine years. He started his career as a newspaper reporter and photographer. Jim is a graduate of the State University of New York at Albany.

    Recent Articles

    Production Line, Electronics Industry
    Suppliers are adding capacity, which means 30-week-plus lead times for discrete semiconductors will eventually drop to the 12-week range.
    Electronic technology concept.
    The investments will lead to a 10-12% increase in semiconductor capacity.
    Dynamic random-access memory
    DRAM tags could fall by more than 60% next year, with additional capacity ramping up later this year and in 2019, and demand remaining steady.
    AVX-MLCC-Group
    Multilayer ceramic capacitor manufacturers are adding capacity, but it won’t be enough to reduce supply constraints until 2019 at the earliest.

    Most Recent Articles

    American and Chinese flags
    Industry associations say new 25% protective tariffs on semiconductors and other products made in China are counterproductive and don’t address intellectual property issues.
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    Chipmakers are aggressively boosting capital expenditures, boosting capacity and supply.
    Semiconductor silicon wafer undergoing probe testing
    A lack investment in new capacity and robust demand has resulted in tight supply and quarterly price increases for silicon wafers.
    Electric car concept
    9% annual increases in unit demand won’t be enough for suppliers to justify price increases.
    Technology electronics lcd engineering concept
    A migration to AMOLED displays in smartphones and other electronics equipment will result in a decline in the thin-film transistor LCD market.
    Circuit board
    While the SRAM market has been declining for years and many SRAM manufacturers have left the market, the memory chip is still needed in industrial equipment and medical systems...