Industry News Highlights

Digi-Key Electronics, has partnered with CalcuQuote to integrate its technology with Digi-Key’s Quote API, providing customers with an even easier entry point to connecting with the company’s leading APIs with less development investment. 

Mouser Electronics, continues to support engineers by offering new technical resources. This year, the global distributor has released more eBooks than ever before, collaborating with top manufacturers to provide practical guides that offer design engineers the information to solve new engineering challenges.

SoftBank Corp. and Swiss-based u-blox AG have announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate in GNSS 1 augmentation services for global markets. SoftBank provides the “ichimill” GNSS augmentation service in Japan, its subsidiary ALES operates a business that generates and delivers positioning correction data, and u-blox is a leading global provider of positioning services for the automotive, industrial and consumer markets. u-blox also provides electronic components for wireless communications and the “PointPerfect” GNSS augmentation service in Europe, the USA and other countries and regions. Through this business collaboration, SoftBank, ALES and u-blox will construct GNSS augmentation infrastructure for Japan, Europe and the USA, develop GNSS receivers and devices, and expand service areas.