FLEXTRONICS & HP INTRODUCE SPINCIRCUIT: THE FIRST DIRECT-TO-DESKTOP E-COMMERCE CO.A new player emerges in the $800 billion electronics supply chain, backed by some of the most prominent names in the electronics industry. SpinCircuit Inc., a business-to-business (B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business ) e-commerce company, makes its public debut as the first-ever Internet gateway bridging the gap between the design desktop and the electronics supply chain network. Cadence Design Systems (company) Cadence Design Systems - A company that sells electronic design automation software and services. http://cadence.com/. See also Verilog. Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. ), Flextronics International Ltd. (Nasdaq: FLEX), and Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate HWP Half-Wave Plate HWP Highway Patrol HWP Height Weight Proportional HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol) HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides ) collaborated as strategic partners to bring this new company to market. SpinCircuit utilizes the Internet to link product development and manufacturing in a way never before done. This is because of the growing disaggregation dis·ag·gre·ga·tion n. 1. A breaking up into component parts. 2. An inability to coordinate various sensations and a failure to observe their mutual relations. of the electronics supply chain, and the resulting breakdown between traditional product development relationships and the flow of information between engineering and manufacturing. As responsibilities are distributed across corporate boundaries, the information flow becomes more complex and dynamic. SpinCircuit estimates that 80 percent of a product's cost is determined in the first 20 percent of the product development process, and that more than 30 percent of a design engineer's time goes toward researching, selecting and documenting electronics components. With its launch of its Internet gateway, SpinCircuit will provide an online database of design information, including drag-and-drop symbols, that features approximately two million unique parts, with an additional 250,000 parts to be added each month. |
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