All of them will be shown step by step. Passive component makers, like everyone else, are trying to figure out if the current slowdown is just a brief inventory correction or something worse. With the answer still unclear, top passives firms are bracing for at least a few tough months, but hoping business turns around later this year.
Nobody is sure just when.
After a record-setting 2000, component supplier Vishay Intertechnology Inc., Malvern, Pa., conceded that inventory corrections and order cancellations by customers during the last quarter of 2000 would flatten the company's performance in the first half of 2001. This is your access point for lots of good information covering applications, design tools, consultants, intellectual property, trade shows and standards. Here is your access point to the standards world.