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We have to look at several factors that created this shortage tsunami that blindsided everyone. We have broken them down into the following: supply, demand, unfortunate events, and poor decision-making.

Surge in Demand
When Covid-19 restrictions rolled out worldwide, stay-at-home mandates were the norm to prevent the transmission and spread of the virus. Everyone shifted to work from home setups, businesses went online, and messaging applications were downloaded immediately. Consequently, demand for additional electronic gadgets skyrocketed. People upgraded their laptops, purchased new desktops, more tablets, etc., to meet the requirements of the current situation.

This bottlenecked supply chains, as retailers did not prepare for the sudden increase in demand for new requirements. Add the existing projects in their pipelines, and you have the perfect recipe for a global semiconductor disaster.

Bad Luck
Aside from facing COVID-related challenges, some of the biggest foundries in the world were hit by a series of unfortunate events that disrupted their production process even more.

On March 19, an electric overload burned down 600 square meters of the Renesas plant in Naka, one of the most prominent players in the global chip market. It destroyed 23 machines and rendered other areas in the facility temporarily unfit for use.

The plant was running to total capacity again by June, but the damage has been done.

In Taiwan, the worst drought in recent memory threatened to make the chip shortage even worse. Producing chips require tremendous amounts of water, which the drought is making impossible to do. In Texas, winter storms forced some of the country’s only chip plants to stop production.

Still, there are only a handful of big chip manufacturers globally, making the semiconductor industry more vulnerable.

Kingtronics’ Radial & Chip MLCC enjoy good reputation of price and high quality on the market, and our parts can replace below brands with very competitive L/T,  about 3~5 weeks!

Below are the cross table, welcome your inquiry to let us help you reduce costs!

MLCC Cross Reference

Kingtronics provides wide variety and complete passive component production line, dedicating to producing the following capacitor series with excellent quality, reasonable lead time and price. Welcome your inquiry for more information.

☆Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor--GKT
Polymer Solid type, Radial Type, SMD Type, Axial Type, Snap-in, Lug and Screw Type
E-cap product catalog: http://www.kingtronics.com/pdf/Kingtronics-Aluminum-Electrolytic-Capacitor-Leaflet.pdf

☆Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors
MKT -Radial Type,
AKT -Axial Type,
LKT -SMD Type Low Voltage
HKT -SMD Type High Voltage
BKT -SMD Type High Q Low ESR RF

☆Tantalum Capacitors
TKT -Radial Type
CKT -SMD Type
EKT -SMD Type Low ESR
PKT -SMD Type Solid Polymer

☆Super capacitor--DKT
Coin-type, Radial type, Snap-in and Screw Type, Combined Type (Double Layer)
product video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXIbjov30aM

☆SMD 3mm Chip Ceramic Trimmer Capacitor--KKT
Product video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Men9BCDlODk&t=1s

Hello Ms. King,

I’m reaching out because you were newly approved for the Digi-Key Marketplace program. The 1st step to getting on boarded, is providing the product information for the parts you’d like to sell on our website.

We thought we’d try and help you out by pulling some off your website to have you review and approve.

Are the products in the attached spreadsheet ok to add to your marketplace store offering?

Please let me know and I’ll begin getting them loaded, and you moving through the process!

Many customers turn to us for the inquires and orders for HC49 series Quartz Crystal recently because a number of suppliers start ceasing production of it.

However, Kingtronics’ production for HC49 series is still quite stable and we can support very competitive offer! 😊 Welcome check price with us. 

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Kingtronics NKT series NTC (Negative Temperature Coefficient) are thermally sensitive, semiconductor resistive devices that decrease in resistance as absolute temperature increases.
Resistance values range from 1.0Ω to 500KΩ.

These NTC thermistors are suited to a large scope of resistance values and temperature coefficients.
Common applications for the NTC Thermistors include temperature compensation, temperature measurement, fan motor control, and temperature sensors.

We offer first-hand support to give to the best pricing. For more information please contact our sales team.

Lunar new year holiday is coming in February, which only last about 7 days, but the disruption it causes in manufacturing can be of up to 40 days.

The reasons are below:
1.All major businesses in China and Taiwan completely shut down for at least 7 days -that includes factories.
2.Some factories might even shut down for up to 3 weeks, the reason being that China’s transportation system will be completely blocked as all employees go back from their factory to their hometown up to 2,000 km away..
3.No manufacturing components orders ship out of China or Taiwan during CNY.
4.You might experience serious production slowdowns 1 or 2 weeks before CNY holiday, this is because many workers leave factories early to go back home.

The pandemic affected the manufacturing industry by disrupting the supply chain in below points.
1.Getting components or materials from China for electronics manufacturing was difficult.

Either factories were not allowed to reopen after CNY, or they had only a limited number of workers, mainly due to travel restrictions.
2.Moving components and materials was complicated, after CNY, due to global travel restrictions imposed to control the pandemic, there was a significantly reduced capacity for air freight.

So how to prepare for supply chain challenge due to CNY.
The best thing to do is to place orders as early as possible!
Please share your demand with our sales team earlier to catch up the favorable delivery date for you. thank you!

RKT-Trimming Potentiometer RKT-3006, RKT-3266, RKT-3269, RKT-3296, RKT-3323, RKT-3329, RKT-3362, RKT-3386, RKT-3306, RKT-3309, RKT-3540S, RKT-3590, RKT-C3305, RKT-065
GKT-Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor Axial Type, Radial Type, Snap-in Type, Screw Type and Lug Type and SMD Chip Type
KKT-3mm Chip Ceramic Trimmer Capacitor 3pF, 6pF,10pF, 20pF, 30pF
our website:http://kingtronics.com/

The types of capacitors that are used in the industrial end-use market segment include primarily plastic film capacitors, ceramic capacitors; aluminum electrolytic capacitors; but also to a lesser extent carbon supercapacitors and tantalum capacitors as is shown in the chart below.

For the application of capactiors, listed as below. Are you one of the professional manufacturer from below industry? 
Kingtronics can help you with our great capacitors and Diodes solutions. Welcome send mail to info@kingtronics.com for more and detailed quotation.

*Power Transmission and Distribution
*Motors and Drives
*Renewable Energy
*Lasers (industrial and medical)
*Defibrillator (external only)
*X-Ray machines (pulsed)
*Ultrasonics (pulse welders, cleaners)
*Airport runway strobes
*Pulse forming networks for radar
*Water purification
*Railgun power
*Missile power-up
*Food sterilization
*Marx generators
*Television and radio transmitters

Have nice Summer. are you going to jump into your summer vacation ?
Before Summer holidays, may we know if you have new order request in July for the half of year 2020 ?

At present, most customers resume orders, reminding you to share orders to us early to prepare the raw materials for the second half of 2020 to meet your expected delivery time.
Welcome share with us to check and support, looking forward for your further news. 
L/T is about 5-6 weeks for SMD ECap, Snap-in ECap and High Voltage(only high voltage 160V or over) Radial E-Cap, feel free to check our upgraded price too.

Remain at your service. Thanks a lot.
•Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors - Radial Type,    high voltage 160V or over  
•Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors - SMD Type,   size 4*4.5mm, 5*5.4mm, 6.3*5.4mm, 6.3*5.8mm, 6.3*7.7mm, 8*6.2mm, 8*10.5mm, 10*10.5mm, 12.5*13.5mm
•Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors - Snap-in Type,   D22, D25, D30, D35, D40