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Nigel Ward has retired from the role of President, Avnet Abacus and will be replaced by another industry veteran Rudy Van Parijs. Ward leaves after a successful 30-year career with Avnet. Van Parijs joined EBV Elektronik, an Avnet company, in 1991, as a field application engineer.

It has been announced that Avnet Silica has received the ‘Distributor of the Year’ award from Nordic Semiconductor ASA, a fabless semiconductor company specialising in ultra-low power (ULP) and low power wireless communication. The ‘Distributor of the Year’ award was presented to Avnet Silica at Nordic’s recent annual sales conference.

It has been announced that Avnet Abacus, an interconnect, passive, electro-mechanical and power distributors and a regional business unit of Avnet, is the recipient of TDK Corporation’s 2017 European Senten Manten Gold award.

The Distributor of the Year 2017 award from ON Semiconductor has been received by Avnet Silica, an Avnet company, for the second time. Each year, the semiconductor manufacturer honours its top distribution partners in each major sales region around the world, with Avnet Silica winning the award for 2017 for the EMEA region again.

Availability of the Ultra96 an ARM-based Ultra96 development board jointly created by Avnet, Xilinx, and 96Boards has been announced by Farnell element14. The development board is based on the Linaro 96Boards Consumer Edition specification, features the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC and provides developers with a unique and powerful environment to simplify machine learning.

Infineon Technologieshas enabled a new open source software stack. It makes work easier for developers who want to use the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 – a standardised hardware-based security solution for securing industrial, automotive and other applications such as network equipment. This is the first open source TPM middleware that complies with the TSS ESAPI specification of the TCG, providing significant value to the open source ...

The component distribution market has plenty of life left in it yet. “There is absolutely no sign of any slump in business,” said Mouser's Mark Burr-Lonnon (pictured), Senior Vice President of Global Service, and EMEA, Asia/Pacific Business. “All my conversations with suppliers, and other distributors, suggest the market is looking good through this year and 2019.”

Avnet Silica has started selling products from Digi International in the EMEA region. It follows the signing of a global distribution agreement between the two companies. Digi International is a supplier of advanced wireless and System-on-Module (SOM) solutions for industrial markets and with Digi XBee RF modems and cellular modems.

Graham McBeth has retired from his position as President of Premier Farnell and he has been replaced by Chris Breslin, who was previously senior vice president for global products. He was announced as McBeth’s replacement at Avnet’s Investor Day event in New York City. Breslin will report to Pete Bartolotta, chief transformation officer at Avnet.

For consumers, the impact of the IoT may be summarised as greater convenience, for example, many people now use contactless payment, something that is enabled by short-range RF communications between a payment terminal and a bank card, mobile phone or smart watch equipped with the same technology.Recently, the introduction of Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) RFID technology has extended that potential. By Costica Dima, Technical Marketing Manager, RFI...