Outlet profile

EE Times

U.S. trade/industry press (technical, non-ideological)

Owned byAspenCore Media, a subsidiary of Arrow Electronics

FundingAdvertising and sponsored content from electronics/semiconductor industry vendors, plus AspenCore's broader trade-media and marketing-services business

On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

EE Times was launched in 1972 by Gerard Leeds's CMP Publications as a trade newspaper for electrical engineers. CMP Media grew into a major tech-publishing company and went public in 1997, before the Leeds family sold it to United Business Media (UBM) in 1999 for about $900 million. Under UBM, EE Times expanded its online presence and ended its print edition after the December 2012 issue amid the industry-wide shift to digital. In 2016, UBM sold its electronics media portfolio — including EE Times, EDN, Embedded.com, TechOnline, and Datasheets.com — to AspenCore Media, a unit of Arrow Electronics, for $23.5 million. Since then, EE Times has operated as part of AspenCore's network of engineering trade publications, which also runs international editions such as EE Times Europe and EE Times Asia. Its coverage centers on semiconductor design, embedded systems, and electronics supply chains, and it has occasionally faced questions from industry observers about newsroom staffing cuts and thinner original reporting as AspenCore consolidated its media properties. As a vendor-supported trade outlet owned by a major electronics distributor, it is best understood as an industry-insider publication rather than a general political news source, though its funding structure gives it an inherent interest in favorable conditions for chip manufacturers and distributors.

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Profile compiled 2026-09-24; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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