Digi-Key secures $300M expansion in Thief River Falls (1,000 jobs in Minnesota)

Electronic Products and Technology ^ | June 15, 2017 | Stephen Law

[backwoods-engineer]

Yes, and the majority of the components they sell are imports. Therefore, they should not be praised.

Good grief. I'm an engineer. I have to design circuits. If I said, "We're only going to use parts designed and manufactured in the United States" we couldn't make ANYTHING. Even our microprocessors that were designed by US companies (TI, Analog Devices) are manufactured in Taiwan and packaged in the Philippines. There ARE NO manufacturers of surface-mount resistors in the US anymore.

Digi-Key is not the problem, and yes I will praise them, because they solve my problems.