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For organisations reliant on older or obsolete components, RoHS conversion enables them to achieve RoHS Compliance.

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We have been members of ERAI since 1998 because we want to protect our customers, and the wider market, from counterfeit electronic components. Their report for 2024 gives an accurate summary of the current situation regarding counterfeits.

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The demand and supply of Electronic components has been volatile since the first vacuum tube valve was shipped, and that’s not going to change in 2025.  Some of the challenges in the recent past have been completely unforeseen, like the supply chain disruption caused by the COVID pandemic: perhaps something unexpected will occur again this year.  There are some challenges that can be foreseen.  Here they are.

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Electronic components are the building blocks of the current advances in technology.  Two of the most significant advances are AI and blockchain. Both these technologies will have an impact on the electronic component supply chain.

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Every company that relies on a supply of electronic components has to manage component obsolescence: the inevitable day when the original manufacturer sets a date for end of life, that is, for production to cease.  Sometimes the components are still up to date technically. Sometimes there is still an active demand for them.  Despite that, the manufacturers decide to stop  manufacturing them. Here’s why it happens.

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