GlobX Blog
Insights on electronic component sourcing, market trends, and supply-chain best practices.
NOR vs NAND Flash: The 2026 Buyer's Decision Guide
NOR flash and NAND flash store bits with the same floating-gate physics but wire the cells differently, and that one wiring choice decides everything a buyer c…
Fab Closures 2026-2027: 6 Shutdowns, Their Dates and What to Last-Time-Buy
Six semiconductor fab closures announced between July 2025 and July 2026 will take mature-node capacity offline from the second half of 2026 through the end of…
BOM Scrubbing: 9 Checks Run Against One Real 14-Line BOM
A BOM scrub is the pass that turns a design document into a purchasable one. Most BOMs that reach a sourcing desk are technically correct and commercially unus…
RoHS Exemptions Expiring in 2026: A 5-Question Check Before You Accept a Part Offer
Three Commission Delegated Directives adopted on 21 November 2025 rewrote the lead exemptions in Annex III of the RoHS Directive (2011/65/EU), and EU Member St…
Part Number Suffix Decoder: 7 Chipmakers' Ordering Codes in One Chart
A component's orderable part number is the base part number plus up to five coded attributes: a qualification marker (often a prefix such as onsemi's SZ or a s…
Semiconductor Price Increases 2026: 12 Notices in One Chart
Between 1 February and 28 September 2026, six chipmakers have issued twelve price-increase notices: Analog Devices, Texas Instruments, NXP, Infineon, STMicroel…
MLCC Shortage 2026: Which Capacitors Are Hit and a 6-Point Substitution Check
The 2026 MLCC shortage is not hitting every capacitor on your BOM. As of September 2026, small-value C0G/NP0 and mid-range X7R parts in 0402 to 0805 cases are…
Obsolete elektronische Bauteile beschaffen: Leitfaden für Einkäufer 2026
Wenn ein Hersteller ein Bauteil abkündigt, beginnt für Einkäufer ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit: Die Restbestände im Markt sind endlich, die P…
Tape and Reel vs Cut Tape: A 6-Format Packaging Chart for Component Buyers
On most surface-mount parts the packaging format is not a shipping preference you choose at checkout. It is welded into the orderable part number. LT8640IUDC-1…
Cyber Resilience Act Component Sourcing: 11 Questions Your Supplier Must Answer
From 11 September 2026, manufacturers selling products with digital elements in the EU must report actively exploited vulnerabilities to their national CSIRT w…
NRND Explained: What Not Recommended for New Designs Means for Buyers
NRND means "not recommended for new designs". The part is still in production and you can still buy it, but the manufacturer is telling you not to design it in…
Electronic Component Shelf Life: How Old a Date Code Is Too Old?
Electronic components do not expire. What ages in storage is not the silicon, it is the solderability of the leads and, on a small number of families, the inte…