The Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to grow to 26 billion units installed in 2020, according to Gartner. Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc., sees opportunity in the key technologies that make the ...
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SanDisk Corporation and Avnet, Inc. have announced that Avnet will offer a wide portfolio of flash-based hardware and software solutions from SanDisk to its customers throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Asia ...
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Avnet Abacus has announced a significant service enhancement for its customers in Europe on components purchased from the TE Connectivity product portfolio. The distributor can offer a reduced minimum order quantity (MOQ) on approximately ...
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Texas Instrument Product Engineer David Zhang shares insights on LED color tuning technology in a recent blog post. As Tim Sullivan indicated in an earlier blog as well, LED lighting is a relatively new technology. Engineers that used to ...
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Avnet Memec has announced a series of hands-on workshops focusing on the SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs (pictured). The one-day events will feature educational presentations combined with hands on design labs suitable for engineers who are both ...
Avnet Abacus has launched a website support the sourcing of components and designs for thermal management in electronic systems. The microsite will allow users to select, and purchase a wide variety of thermal management products from the ...
Luminus is shipping a high-power single-die ultra-violet LED. Called CBT-90-UV, the device contains a monolithic 9mm2 die that that delivers between 7 and 9.1W of 405nmpeak optical power at 13.5A forward current. Applications are ...
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Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, part of Avnet Inc. (NYSE:AVT) opened a lighting lab in Chandler, AZ, to measure light-emitting diode (LED) properties for various applications. Avnet LightLab’s 900sq.ft. facility is equipped ...
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Intersil has joined with Renesas Electronics to develop a sensor signal conditioning reference design for thermocouple, pressure and strain gauges. The design incorporates two boards - an Intersil board with analogue front-end chips ...
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InvenSense, the MEMS motion sensor specialist, has signed a pan-European distribution agreement with Avnet Memec. “Aligning with InvenSense is very exciting as they have industry-leading MEMS sensors, and their 6- and 9-axis ...
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The German component distribution market stabilised in the fourth quarter of 2012, with a 10% increase in orders, according to the German distribution industry body FBDi, as the Embedded World exhibition opens in Nuremberg. The ...
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Grid-Eye is an 8x8 MEMS thermopile array from Panasonic. "Unlike conventional single thermopile or pyroelectric sensors that only measure temperature at a certain point-of-contact, Grid-EYE enables contactless temperature detection ...
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Hardware manufacturers met in Silicon Valley last week to continue drafting new open standards for data centres and servers with components that can be put together like Lego. The Facebook-sponsored Open Compute Project summit in Santa ...
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Late last month LED maker Philips Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA said that, after restructuring its distribution channels, it had added new distributors for the first time in nearly two decades, driven by the needs of a rapidly growing ...
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Silica, an Avnet company, and Philips Lumileds have signed a distribution agreement which comes into effect immediately. Under the terms of the agreement, Silica will support sales, marketing and support activities for Philips Lumileds full ...
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