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Check out the Avnet element14 competition "In Reach!" - it's an "Ultrasonic Sensor Sensing Challenge" to build projects using TDK’s waterproof ultrasonic range sensors.

Different market sectors are enjoying growth and this roundtable with key personnel from Anglia, Avnet America, DigiKey, Farnell Global, Future Electronics, Mouser and Powell Electronics discusses the reasons why. By Caroline Hayes. In which areas do you see the most order activity? Debbie Marriott, Anglia: Industrial and military. The UK has always been strong in the industrial and military sectors, ...

Wise design decisions will make the smart home brilliant. Ankur Tomar sheds some light on the smart home. First there was clapping to activate light switches, then voice-activated speakers taking song requests and now, with the explosion of AI, smart homes are progressing to the next level. There are thousands of smart home examples, planned and yet to be imagined. ...

Caroline Hayes conducted a virtual roundtable discussion about the post-Covid reset with Avnet Americas’ Dayna Badhorn, Anglia’s Debbie Marriott, Ian Wallace of DigiKey, Jose Lok from Farnell Global, Stephan Hubert at Future, Mouser’s Graham Maggs and Gary Evans from Powell Electronics. If you had to sum up the economic state of the electronics industry in one paragraph what would that ...

Distributor Avnet has introduced the Tria brand for its embedded computing products (computer on modules, boards and systems). It has also announced the Tria Technologies business group which will also include its compute design and manufacturing capabilities. Tria Technologies will support OEMs with design either from scratch or using off-the-shelf products and will also make custom designs. Tria will be ...

Rebeca Obregon is to be the president of Farnell from the first of July. Farnell is a subsidiary of Avnet. “Since joining Avnet’s leadership team last year, Rebeca has shown her commitment to delivering results,” said Phil Gallagher, CEO, Avnet. “Farnell remains a critical part of Avnet’s proposition, and I’m confident that Rebeca is the right leader to steer the ...

The growing interest in exploring modular hardware instead of a traditional chip-down approach requires an understanding of the pros and cons of each approach, say James Jaksich and Camron Chilton. There are five key benefits of a system-on-module (som) approach, which will help engineers through the make vs buy decision process. Flexibility Standards defining size, connectors and interfaces play a ...

What caught David Manners' eye this week was Pragmatic, the Cambridge flexible chip manufacturer, raising $206 million.

The 2023 Avnet Insights survey reports that nearly three quarters (73%) of engineers who responded from around the world say the component shortages experienced recently in the supply chain have improved year on year year on year. This is an improvement from last year, when 59% said the component shortages had worsened year-on-year. A large majority (66%) said there was ...

Avnet Embedded has come up with the compact MSC OSM-SF-IMX93 OSM computing modules compliant with the new OSM* 1.1 standard (Size-S) “Small” with dimensions of 30 x 30mm. The scalable standard module family integrates i.MX 93 applications processors from NXP Semiconductors. The MSC OSM-SF-IMX93 OSM modules housed in a pre-tinned LGA package can be soldered directly to the PCB and ...