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Market Intelligence Report

Empowering insights on commodity and supply chain dynamics

Open-market activity provides a lens into broader market conditions and is often an early indicator of trends and supply chain disruptions. As electronic-component distribution channels have evolved in our increasingly connected world, tier-one OEMS and CMs have looked to open-market distributors as strategic partners to help balance their supply chains.

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Each month, Smith offers select customers access to our expertly curated Market Intelligence Report.

Our team of experts brings a diverse wealth of knowledge and experience that helps us offer the most relevant and actionable insights into the global electronic-component marketplace. From Smith’s decades in business and vast network of longstanding market relationships to the commodity, cross-industry, and regional expertise of our employees, we have connections and resources in place to keep you fully informed and help guide your purchasing strategies.

Market Bytes

Smith’s biweekly Market Bytes offer a quick at-a-glance into what’s going on in the worldwide electronic-component marketplace.
Market Byte 7.25.2024
While other products are experiencing some spot shortages, the only commodity parts that are under real constraints are HBMx memory and large-capacity DDR5 RDIMMs.
Automotive Insights Market Byte 7.24.2024
The automotive electronics market is healthy, especially in China and Europe, where the push for increased electric-vehicle use keeps manufacturers busy.
Market Byte 7.23.2024
According to Canalys, global sales for desktops and laptops were up 3.4% year over year by the second quarter of 2024, with notebooks and desktop shipments reaching 50 million and 12.8 million units respectively.
Market Byte 7.18.2024
Smartphone sales have increased slightly, but most other consumer-electronics items are experiencing low demand.
Automotive Insights Market Byte 7.17.2024
Shortages in the automotive sector are mainly for microcontrollers from Infineon, NXP, and Renesas and power management ICs, like voltage regulators and analog-to-digital converters from Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics, and onsemi.
Market Byte 7.16.2024
AMD continues to erode Intel’s market-share lead in x386 server computing and gained another 0.5 percent in the past quarter, having reached its highest share ever in that segment.
Market Byte 7.11.2024
SEMI predicts that sales for semiconductor-manufacturing equipment will reach USD $109 billion this year—a new record for the industry and a 3.4 percent increase over 2023.
Automotive Insights Market Bytes 7.10.2024
There is a good amount of production expansion coming from capacitor companies, especially from Murata, to help overcome supply deficits, and expectations are that the second half of the year will ease most of them.
Market Byte 7.9.2024
Demand for client SSDs is increasing because of the soon-to-come product launches of AI PCs, but SSD makers have plenty of finished goods and NAND components on hand to manage the increases without delays to deliveries.

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