PASADENA, CA – Procurement professionals are now enjoying a degree of negotiation power that they have not experienced in years due to an improved environment for the buy-side of the electronics supply chain marked by falling lead times, stubborn inventory, uneven demand, and mostly declining pricing, according to new Commodity IQ data from Supplyframe.

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TAIPEI – Taiwanese exports of electronic products, primarily semiconductors, shrank in July to $17.7 billion, a 0.4% year-on-year drop, due to faltering demand for foundry services, chip testing and packaging services and printed circuit boards.

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MILPITAS, CA – With sequential IC sales declines beginning to moderate, the global semiconductor industry appears to be nearing the end of a downcycle and is expected to begin to recover in 2024, SEMI and TechInsights reported in the Semiconductor Manufacturing Monitor.

Read more: SEMI: Semiconductor Industry on Track for 2024 Recovery but Headwinds Remain

NEEDHAM, MA – Worldwide tablet shipments posted a decline of 29.9% year over year in the second quarter, totaling 28.3 million units, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation's Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker.

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