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EE Times

U.S. electronics industry trade

Owned byAspenCore Media, a wholly owned division of Arrow Electronics, Inc. — one of the world's largest electronics component distributors
FundingPrimarily B2B advertising, including display ads, sponsored content, webinars, white papers, and podcasts targeted at electronics engineers and industry buyers
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

EE Times (Electronic Engineering Times) was founded in 1972 by Gerard G. Leeds through his company CMP Publications Inc., making it one of the longest-running publications serving electrical engineers in the United States. In 1999, the Leeds family sold CMP to the British media conglomerate United Business Media (UBM) for approximately $900 million. Under UBM, EE Times shifted heavily toward digital publishing as print advertising declined; the final print issue appeared in December 2012. In 2016, Arrow Electronics — a Fortune 150 electronics distribution company — purchased EE Times, EDN, Embedded.com, TechOnline, and related titles from UBM for $23.5 million, consolidating them under a new subsidiary called AspenCore Media. The acquisition raised editorial-independence concerns among industry observers, since Arrow competes with other distributors whose products EE Times covers, and Arrow itself is a commercial stakeholder in the same supply chain the publication reports on. AspenCore has maintained a separate editorial operation, but the structural conflict of interest has been noted by critics in the trade press. EE Times today covers semiconductors, chip design, electronic design automation, communications, and embedded systems, with a global network of editors and correspondents in Asia, Europe, and the United States. Its editorial focus is technical and commercial rather than ideological, and it covers U.S. government semiconductor policy — including CHIPS Act funding, export controls, and tariffs — primarily through the lens of industry impact.

Sources

  1. EE Times — Wikipedia
  2. About Us — EE Times
  3. Arrow Electronics Buys UBM's Technology Media Portfolio — EE Times
  4. EE Times 'Divested' — EE Journal (conflict-of-interest analysis)
  5. AspenCore Brand Page — EE Times
  6. Trump's Revamp of CHIPS Act Aims at Big Investments — EE Times
  7. Arrow buys EE Times, EDN, TechOnline and more from UBM — SemiWiki

Profile compiled 2026-06-25; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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