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Avnet Silica names Hydronauten winner of the Advanced Electronics Challenge for breakthrough AI-driven vibration damping technology
Avnet Silica, an Avnet company (NASDAQ: AVT), announced Hydronauten as the winner of this year’s Advanced Electronics Challenge. The award, presented at embedded world 2025, recognises start-ups’ groundbreaking innovations in hardware-based solutions. Hydronauten, a start-up based in Rostock, Germany, was awarded for its development of QuietHydro, an advanced active vibration damping system designed for pipelines and pumps. The technology significantly enhances operational safety, service life, and energy efficiency, reducing energy consumption by up to 25% through AI-driven real-time optimisation. “The Advanced Electronics Challenge was created to support visionary start-ups in bringing innovative ideas to market,” said Michael Speyerer, Country Director DACH & NL, Avnet Silica. “Hydronauten’s QuietHydro technology is a great example of how…
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From nostalgia to innovation: Avnet Silica to showcase Edge AI Phone Box at embedded world 2025
Avnet Silica, an Avnet company (NASDAQ: AVT), will feature demonstrations of generative AI at the edge, including its iconic Phone Box demo, alongside innovations in power design, machine learning, wireless communications, sensors, and analog technology, at this year’s embedded world exhibition in Nuremberg, Germany. The distributor is inviting attendees to its booth 3A-111 at the show, which takes place between 11–13 March, to explore how embedded technology is revolutionizing industries across the board. The future’s calling on Avnet Silica’s Phone Box The centerpiece of Avnet Silica’s exhibit is their Phone Box — a vintage-style telephone booth, powered by TRIA and AMD solutions, that blends nostalgia with cutting-edge technology. Visitors can step into the booth,…
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Avnet Silica to Spotlight Generative AI Experiences and Innovations, and host insightful sessions on power design and cybersecurity at Electronica 2024
Avnet Silica, an Avnet company (NASDAQ: AVT), will spotlight its leading-edge technologies and supplier products, host interactive knowledge sessions, and provide unique networking opportunities at electronica 2024, taking place in Munich, Germany between 12th and 15th November. Avnet Silica will welcome visitors to booth B5.103, from new engineers to key decision-makers and industry leaders. Visitors can expect highlights themed around two areas – demonstrations, and events & conversations. DEMONSTRATIONS Vintage Meets Future: TRIA-powered AI chatbot demo A vintage-style telephone booth helps visitors experience the future. In this demo, developed in collaboration with TRIA and AMD, attendees will be able to engage in dynamic conversations powered by AI at the Edge. Hosted entirely offline, the demo will contrast the speed, security,…
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Avnet Silica bolsters cybersecurity capability to support customers in ensuring Cyber Resilience Act compliance
Avnet Silica, an Avnet company (NASDAQ: AVT), today outlined its strategy and capabilities for supporting customers’ compliance with the European Cyber Resilience Act, which is due to be formally adopted during the course of the year. The company now provides comprehensive device management and provisioning services at its state-of-the-art Logistics Centre and the largest European Product Modification Centre in Poing, Germany, that enable secure and compliant product deployment. The Cyber Resilience Act mandates harmonised rules for placing products with digital elements on the European Union market, requiring them to be free of known vulnerabilities and secure throughout their lifecycle. Manufacturers must thoroughly document product specifications, comply with EU cybersecurity standards, conduct risk assessments,…
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Avnet Silica to combine latest power electronics solutions with design-in expertise at PCIM Europe
Avnet Silica, an Avnet company (NASDAQ: AVT), today provided details of its participation in the leading power electronics exhibition, PCIM Europe, which is taking place between June 11th – 13th, 2024 in Nuremberg, Germany. The company will be exhibiting the newest power solutions from leading suppliers such as onsemi, ST, Renesas, Navitas Semiconductor, Nexperia, Diodes Inc., and Monolithic Power Systems. Avnet Silica backs a broad product offering with its own technical expertise that helps guide engineers to confidently design in the very latest power technologies along with sophisticated and dependable supply chain solutions. The fast-paced development of silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) wide bandgap semiconductor technologies – many of which…
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Avnet Silica adds first provisioning services through NXP’s EdgeLock 2GO
Avnet Silica, an Avnet company (NASDAQ: AVT), today announced its cooperation with NXP® Semiconductors, a leading secure connectivity solutions provider for embedded applications, to bring secure provisioning services to OEM and EMS customers. This consolidates the distributor’s long-standing collaboration with NXP. The cooperation allows Avnet Silica to be the first NXP programming partner to deliver the EdgeLock® 2GO service for compatible devices. The Avnet Silica secure provisioning machine is connected to NXP’s EdgeLock 2GO cloud-based solution to streamline the provisioning process of OEM devices and ensure quality of service. This joint solution allows OEM or EMS customers to configure, generate and manage their device credentials via the NXP EdgeLock 2GO service. They can then receive the credentials already programed into the…
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Avnet Silica expands its embedded vision solutions portfolio through EMEA-wide partnership with Allied Vision
Avnet Silica, an Avnet company (NASDAQ: AVT), today announced it is welcoming Allied Vision, manufacturer of high-quality industrial camera modules and lenses, into its linecard as an EMEA-wide franchise. The agreement provides customers with complementary support for varied needs, from optics over cameras to image processing on embedded SoCs, through Avnet Silica’s EMEA Software and Services team. Allied Vision’s strategic positioning in Germany enables Avnet Silica customers to leverage short lead times and swiftly meet market demands, offering a variety of image sensors in one unified housing and driver API. The supplier demonstrates its commitment to high quality manufacturing through active sensor and lens alignment, enhancing image quality and streamlining data processing. Moreover, compliance…
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Avnet Silica presented GasVisor with the Advanced Electronics Challenge award at embedded world 2024
Avnet Silica, an Avnet company (NASDAQ: AVT), announced GasVisor as the winner of the Advanced Electronics Challenge, an initiative which champions start-ups and young, innovative companies with hardware-based product ideas. The award ceremony took place during embedded world, 10th April, in Munich, Germany. The shortlist consisted of a diverse range of start-up companies, namely enna systems, FLOW eye, GasVisor, HIVE Systems, HOREICH, Lemvos, MoxyByte, Smokebusters, and Alexx Energy Technologies. GasVisor’s solution automates the level measurement and ordering process of CO2 gas cylinders, allowing customers to use resources with increased efficiency while significantly reducing their CO2 footprint. Companies HOREICH and MoxyByte were awarded second and third place for their IoT sensor solution and natural language…
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Avnet Silica to host exclusive seminars at embedded world 2024
Avnet Silica, an Avnet company (NASDAQ: AVT), is hosting a series of exclusive software and services workshops at embedded world 2024 in Nuremberg, Germany, from April 9th to 11. Each session will take around an hour. The five seminar/workshops are available for booking now. A modular prototyping approach for embedded vision projects This seminar is designed to provide technical insights and practical examples to streamline and simplify your embedded vision development process, from prototyping to product. Understand the principles, benefits and planning steps of a modular prototyping approach in embedded vision projects. Learn about Avnet Silica’s silicon, module and ecosystem partners and the Avnet Silica Software&Services offering to accelerate prototyping and development. Follow…
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Avnet Silica to showcase the digital future of industrial applications at embedded world 2024
Avnet Silica, an Avnet company (NASDAQ: AVT), today announced its presence at embedded world 2024, to be held between 9 – 11 April in Nuremberg, Germany. Through a series of live demonstrations under the umbrella theme of ‘The engineers of evolution’, the distributor and some of its world-class suppliers will highlight the newest innovations in the semiconductor sector, exemplifying the future of industrial applications and their integration with the cloud. Visitors will be able to discover an extensive range of proven, in-service technology that is shaping the future, such as: Microsoft’s Windows IoT on ARM with cutting-edge on-device generative AI features smoothing the migration path across any architecture for application developers on a low power platform. Industrial…
