UNSPSC 32101668: Codecs integrated circuit

A type of integrated circuit applicable to codec devices, e.g., devices or computer programs capable of encoding and/or decoding a digital data stream or signal. The word codec is a contraction of 'compressor-decompressor' or, most commonly, 'coder-decoder'.

UNSPSC 32101668 Codecs integrated circuit is a Commodity code that does not align with recent state and local procurement activity. The three opportunities posted since May 2026 that reference this code—a school district's electronic equipment and parts RFB, a municipal utility's outdoor circuit breaker RFP, and a university's custom printed circuit board RFB—involve procurement of assembled electrical and computing equipment, substation components, and specialized boards rather than codec integrated circuits as discrete components. The code shows little relevant recent activity for vendors supplying codec ICs as a line item to state and local buyers.

Issuing bodies across the recent records span school districts (Northside Independent School District, San Antonio), municipal utilities (Lubbock Power & Light), higher education (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and cooperative purchasing vehicles serving multiple jurisdictions (Sourcewell on behalf of Washington and other states). Geographic activity appears concentrated in Texas and the upper Midwest, with the Sourcewell cooperative reaching multiple states and Canadian jurisdictions. The mismatch between the codec IC commodity code and the actual scope of these solicitations—which target complete equipment assemblies, protective relays, circuit boards, and law enforcement hardware—suggests this code does not capture genuine supply-chain demand from state and local governments at present.