October 2025 Connector Industry News

Upcoming industry events, as well as recent award, partnership, promotion, personnel, facility, distribution, standards, association, and certification news from across the connector industry.

October 2025 Connector Industry News

October 2025 Connector Industry News > Award News

Mouser Electronics announced the 2025 recipients of the Mouser Best-in-Class Awards. Winners are selected using six main criteria: strategically partnering with the Mouser team, promoting their product line(s) within Mouser, finding ways to grow Mouser and gain mutual market share, working with the Mouser team to launch new products, maximizing Mouser’s unique value proposition within their company, and championing Mouser within their organization. 2025 Mouser Best-in-Class award winners include: Anthony Bruggeman, Harwin; Lynn Head, Winchester Interconnect; Michon Holt, Kyocera AVX; and Tom Neff, Weidmuller. Learn more about the awards and all the recipients here.

DigiKey is sponsoring the sixth annual Works With event series, organized by Silicon Labs. The global event series brings together device manufacturers, wireless experts, engineers, and suppliers with a shared interest in advancing IoT innovations and solutions across industry sectors. Works With 2025 is a four-part global conference series with IoT experts from Silicon Labs, Amazon, Cisco and more, discussing AI, software, and wireless innovations, as well as the evolution of the connected world for real-world applications. Over two months, the series will take place in three different locations and will conclude with a virtual two-day summit. Following the initial session held at the Austin Summit in Austin, Texas, on October 1, the series continues at the IoT Developer Conference (Shenzhen, China) on October 23, the IoT Developer Conference (Bangalore, India) on October 30, and Virtual Summit, November 19-20. At the upcoming Works With events, participants will be immersed in training sessions and specialized tracks, along with a demo lab and networking opportunities. Developer-led, hands-on workshops will provide practical knowledge for accelerating project development using the latest tools, techniques and resources.

October 2025 Connector Industry News > Facility News

Caption (L to R): Tara Tomcsik-Husak, President/CEO of the Troy Chamber of Commerce; Anthony Oddo, VP Sales, Automotive Americas, TE; Isaac Cruz, SVP & GM, Auto Americas, TE; Ethan Baker, mayor of Troy, Michigan; Jean-Michel Renaudie, President, Global Automotive, TE; and Aaron Stucki, Segment President, Transportation Solutions, TE join together to cut the ribbon on TE’s new contemporary office space in Troy. Photo credit: Amanda Cain

TE Connectivity is part of the vibrant Detroit-Metro community, working closely with automotive manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers to provide enhanced solutions that are driving the future of mobility. Ethan Baker, mayor of Troy Michigan, and Tara Tomcsik-Husak, president/CEO of Troy Chamber of Commerce, joined TE representatives for a grand opening ceremony for the company’s new office in Troy. This move signifies TE’s commitment to the region as the hub of automotive excellence in North America. With over 85,000 employees across the globe, including 9,000 engineers, TE is at the forefront of industrial technology and innovation, working with customers in more than 130 countries to help solve the toughest challenges and bring bold ideas to life. TE Automotive is one of TE Connectivity’s largest and most impactful sectors. Its technologies are essential to the automotive industry, including but not limited to electrification, autonomous driving, V2X, and advanced performance materials.

October 2025 Connector Industry News > Partnership and Distribution News

Samtec Inc. and Molex announced a license agreement naming Molex as a second source for the Samtec Si-Fly® HD product family. The Si-Fly HD product family delivers industry-leading signal integrity for high-speed applications and supports data rates critical for modern networking, communications, and computing systems. As part of the agreement, Molex will manufacture and distribute these interconnects to customers worldwide, ensuring uninterrupted access to advanced connectivity solutions, while benefiting from the combined engineering and support expertise of both teams. The agreement reflects a strategic alignment between industry leaders focused on delivering high-speed, high-density interconnect solutions for a wide range of data center, high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning applications. Customers can expect the same quality, form, fit, and function from Molex’s Si-Fly HD products, ensuring seamless integration into existing Samtec-based systems.

Waytek is now an authorized distributor of Erich Jaeger products in North America. Erich Jaeger has developed and produced high-performance connectors for trucks, trailers, and towing systems for over 95 years. Known for innovation, quality, and durability, its solutions are widely adopted across global OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers in automotive and commercial vehicle markets. Erich Jaeger products now available at Waytek include trailer connectors, sockets, cable assemblies, and adapter cables designed for rugged commercial and heavy-duty use, including agricultural and construction vehicle applications.

October 2025 Connector Industry News > New Technical Resources

Weidmuller USA debuted Data Hub, a new core service inside its industrial automation u-OS operating system that amplifies the platform’s commitment to stay open, flexible, and independent. Weidmuller’s u-OS currently supports a wide range of commercially available applications and programs, such as CODESYS, Node-RED, and Grafana, along with custom programming and support for most fieldbus and IIoT communication protocols. The Data Hub simplifies collaboration between different applications by offering the only service that supports three open application programming interfaces (APIs). Data Hub allows any app, controller or sensor to share data through REST, for low-code IT calls; NATS, a high-speed message bus for event-driven communication; and REAL TIME, a deterministic cyclic channel for real-time industrial exchange. Additionally, by eliminating protocol silos and the need for third-party middleware, Data Hub is fully independent of any manufacturer’s technology. This industry-leading level of openness allows users to connect CODESYS variables, Node-RED flows, PROCON-Connect data aggregates, or any customized application. Data Hub removes traditional barriers such as proprietary gateways, cloud lock-ins, or requirements for recurring licenses so integrators can focus on analytics, optimization, and new services rather than hand-coding protocol bridges. Engineers, programmers, and businesses can download u-OS version 2, 2.0 anytime and enable Data Hub immediately through the built-in update service or by visiting weidmuller.com/u-OS for further details.

Molex released the results of a survey exploring top trends, technology innovations, and evolving career skills impacting design engineers at aerospace and defense companies. The survey report, 2025 State of Design Engineering in Aerospace and Defense, polled 1,021 qualified participants with direct engineering responsibility, either as hands-on design engineers or management leaders, at OEMs, prime contractors or Tier 1/sub-system suppliers in the aerospace and defense industry in the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany. Respondents ranked their exploration of various technology innovations, encompassing high-speed data transfer, electronic defense, advanced sensing and sensor processing, as well as power distribution and onboard power management. Access the full report here.

October 2025 Connector Industry News > Association, Standards, & Certifications News

The MIPI Alliance announced the first installation of an automotive-grade SerDes chipset based on the industry-leading MIPI A-PHY specification by a global automotive OEM. With this milestone, A-PHY has become the first industry-standardized automotive SerDes solution to enter mass production. MIPI contributor member company Velinktech announced that its high-speed automotive SerDes chipset has entered mass production in the 06 Relive compact SUV model by Lynk & Co, a global automotive brand established in 2016 as a joint venture between Geely Auto Group and Volvo Car Group. This announcement follows previously A-PHY design wins by Valens Semiconductor, with its A-PHY chipsets selected by a family of European OEMs for integration into several vehicle models with a start of production in 2026. Also, Mobileye, a market leader in ADAS and autonomous systems, selected Valens’ A-PHY-compliant chipsets to provide the in-car, sensor-to-compute connectivity infrastructure for its Mobileye EyeQ 6 High automated and autonomous production programs underway with a group of global automotive brands. MIPI A-PHY provides global OEMs and automotive supply chain vendors a highly reliable long-reach (up to 15 meters) standardized solution for high-speed image sensor and display connectivity to support next-generation ADAS, ADS and SDV-centralized compute applications. It supports a multitude of higher layer protocols and forms the foundation of MIPI’s Automotive SerDes Solutions (MASS) end-to-end framework with built-in functional safety and security. A-PHY v.1.0 was also adopted as an IEEE standard, available as IEEE 2977-2021.

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