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.
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.
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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.
Applied DNA Sciences and LMI have agreed to join their efforts and expertise to help protect national security and commercial supply chains from counterfeit electronic parts.
This joining of forces seeks to educate the public and private sectors on the increasing risk posed by counterfeits and to encourage development of preventive measures.
Applied DNA Sciences is a security technology firm based in New York. They provide authentication solutions that help to protect against theft, counterfeiting, fraud and diversion. Read about their SigNature® DNA anti-counterfeiting authentication solution in our recent blog post.
LMI is a private, not-for-profit, leading consultancy who are committed to helping government leaders and managers reach decisions that make a difference.
"Supply chains critical for commerce and security are under attack. In the electronics arena, remarking, cloning, and manufacture from salvaged die are creating increasingly sophisticated counterfeits.” said Joe Doyle, senior consultant for LMI. “A cutting edge technology company in this space working with a leading supply chain consultancy is just the sort of collaboration that can make a difference,” Doyle added.
To read the press release in full, please visit the Applied DNA Sciences website, or to read Atlantis Electronics counterfeit policy, please visit our website.
The Semiconductor Industry Association
(SIA) have reported that worldwide semiconductor sales reached an
industry annual record in 2013, totalling $305.6 billion. This is an
increase of 4.8% from 2012's total of $291.6 billion.
December
2013 alone reached $26.6 billion, marking the strongest December on
record. Also, Q4 2013 global sales reached $79.9, a 7.7% increase from
the $74.2 billion reached in Q4 2012.
“The global semiconductor
industry exceeded $300 billion in sales for the first time ever in 2013,
spurred by consistent, steady growth across nearly all regions and
product categories,” said Brian Toohey, president and CEO, SIA. “The
industry finished the year on a strong note with its best December on
record, indicating that recent momentum is likely to carry over into
2014.”
Strong demand was seen in several product segments in
2013, with Logic being the largest semiconductor category by sales,
reaching $85.9 billion in 2013, a 5.2% increase from 2012. Memory at
$67.0 billion and MOS Micro-ICs at $58.7 billion, were also up in the
top 3 in terms of revenue sales. Memory was the fastest growing segment
with an increase of 17.6% in 2013, with DRAM performing particularly
well, increasing by 33.3% year-over-year. While NAND flash also
experienced a strong growth of 8.1%.
Other well performing
product segments include; optoelectronic products which reached $27.6
billion in sales with a 5.3% annual increase, and Analog which reached
$40.1 billion in sales with a 2.1% annual increase.
To read the article in full, please visit the SIA website.
Thank you for your continued support throughout the year. We wish you well over the holiday season and New Year celebrations.We will be closed for the holiday season from 4:30pm (EST) Friday 20th December 2013, reopening in the New Year at 08:30am (EST) on Thursday 2nd January 2014. We will be ready and waiting to receive all your inquires and annual scheduling and please let us know if you have any excess stock, we wish you a busy and prosperous New Year. Once again have a wonderful holiday season.
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Microelectronics experts at Honeywell Aerospace are helping U.S. military researchers to develop electronic systems and other electronic components which are capable of decomposing in a controlled and triggerable manner.
Scientists at the U.S. Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), awarded a $2.5 million contract to the Honeywell Aerospace Microelectronics & Precision Sensors segment for the Vanishing Programmable Resources (VAPR) program. The goal of the contract is to develop electronic components that will physically decompose on command to prevent unauthorised use.
DARPA officials say that short-life electronics may enable revolutionary new military and medical capabilities. They state it is nearly impossible to track and recover every electronic device from the battlefield. With these new capabilities, once the device is triggered to dissolve it becomes useless, meaning the risk of environmental effects, counterfeiting and potential enemy use will be eradicated. Also, devices that resorb into the body may aid in continuous health monitoring and treatment. The devices are intended to perform similar to commercial-off-the-shelf electronics, but with an ability to last only as long as they are needed. The trigger could be real-time via a signal or as a result of environmental conditions, such as temperature. To find out more about the VAPR program, please visit the DARPA website.
