2016 – Infinetix

Microchip: Long Live the 8-Bit

2016-08-182017-12-13 Peter Van Doren

Microchip has been very acquisition-hungry as of late, recently purchasing Atmel among many others. While their product line expands, the most noticeable might be the merging of the two largest 8-bit microcontroller providers. The PIC Micro and the AVR are now owned by Microchip and both have a stronghold in the industry and in the maker community. The most…

TE Connectivity

2016-06-062017-12-13 Peter Van Doren

A group of us just had a working lunch with Arrow Electronics and TE Connectivity. TE is one of those companies some people in the industry may not have heard of, but they know of their subsidiaries: Tyco Electronics, AMP, Corcom, etc. Their breadth and depth of product is quite impressive: antennas, connectors, EMI filters,…