Happy 10th Anniversary To Atlantis Electronics!

As it's our 10 year anniversary this month, the Atlantis team held an office celebration for the occasion, complete with an Atlantis cake!

Below are some photos from the day.

Don't forget we're still running our free prize draw to win an iPad Mini 2!

Every requirement that we receive during March will be entered, but make sure you quote 'iPad10'!

During this exciting time, we are also working on the revamp of our website! This is due to go live very shortly, so remember to keep checking for the switch! Whilst you're there, you can also send us your requirements to be entered into our free prize draw!

Celebrate Our 10 Year Anniversary With Us By Entering Our FREE iPad Giveaway!

Atlantis is proud to announce it is celebrating it's 10 year anniversary in March 2014.

In celebration of this milestone, Atlantis is running a FREE prize draw for the chance to win the new iPad Mini 2!

In the past decade, Atlantis' presence has continued to grow within the electronic component distribution industry. The company has gone from strength to strength and now employs 15 individuals at it's Canadian base and has 7 more offices worldwide.

Last year Atlantis moved from it's smaller location to a larger premises in Ontario, Canada. The move helped to facilitate the expansion of the company and the ever-increasing skilled workforce.

Supporting it's growth, Atlantis has earned over 100 regular customers from a number of industries including automotive, aerospace and defense, medical and many more.

The last 10 years have seen many challenges, growth and new service offerings within Atlantis and we are very proud of what we have achieved by developing the distribution network in Canada.

Visit our website to find out how to enter our free prize draw and to read the terms and conditions.

Semiconductor Industry Posts Highest-Ever January Sales

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) announced that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $26.28 billion for the month of January 2014. This was an increase of 8.8% from January 2013 when sales reached $24.15 billion, meaning this was the industry's highest-ever January sales total.

Global sales from January 2014 were 1.4% lower than the December 2013 total of $26.65 billion which reflects normal seasonal trends.

“The global semiconductor industry has built on its record revenues from 2013 with an impressive start to 2014, led largely by continued strength in the Americas market,” said Brian Toohey, president and CEO, Semiconductor Industry Association. “Sales in January were up across most regions and nearly all product categories compared to last January, which bodes well for continued growth during the rest of 2014.”

Regionally, year-over-year sales increased in the Americas by 17.3%, Europe by 11.3%, and Asia Pacific by 8.3%, but decreased in Japan by -4.7%. Sales were flat in Europe compared to the previous month, but decreased slightly in Asia Pacific by -0.6%, Japan by -2.3%, and the Americas by -3.5%.

To read this article in full, please visit the SIA website. 

DARPA Aims to Eradicate Counterfeit Components

Photo Courtesy of DARPA

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are seeking proposals to develop a small (100 micron x 100 micron) component or dielet, that will authenticate the origin of electronic components and give 100% assurance against counterfeits. 

Over the past two years alone, over one million suspect counterfeit parts have been associated with known compromises of the defense supply chain. With both expensive and inexpensive electronic parts being targeted, counterfeit as well as suspect parts, present a critical risk to the Department of Defense (DoD), where a malfunction of a single part could lead to system failures that put lives and missions at risk.

The DARPA program, named Supply Chain Hardware Integrity for Electronics Defense (SHEILD), seeks to develop a component or dielet which will contain a full encryption engine, sensors to detect tampering and will readily affix to today's electronic components such as microchips.

The successful development of SHIELD technology will provide 100% assurance against common threats such as; recycled components that are sold as new, unlicensed overproduction, test rejects and sub standard components sold as high-quality, parts falsely marked, clones and copies and components that are repackaged for unauthorised applications.

“SHIELD demands a tool that costs less than a penny per unit, yet makes counterfeiting too expensive and technically difficult to do,” said Kerry Bernstein, DARPA program manager. “The dielet will be designed to be robust in operation, yet fragile in the face of tampering. What SHIELD is seeking is a very advanced piece of hardware that will offer an on-demand authentication method never before available to the supply chain.”

The dielet will be inserted into the electronic component's package by the manufacturer, or affixed to existing trusted components, without any impact on its design or reliability. There will be no electrical connection between the two. Authenticity testing could then be done anywhere with a handheld probe, or an automated one for larger volumes. Probes will need to be close to the dielet for scanning. After a scan, an inexpensive appliance (perhaps a smartphone) uploads a serial number to a central, industry-owned server. The sever then sends an unencrypted challenge to the dielet, which sends back an encrypted answer and data from passive sensors - like light exposure - that could indicate tampering.

DARPA will be hosting a Proposers' Day Workshop in support of the SHIELD program, which will be held on 14th March 2014. For more information and to read the article in full, please visit the DARPA website.

Visit the Atlantis Electronics website to view our Counterfeit Policy.