Electrocomponents plc is continuing its transformation under CEO Lindsley Ruth, who joined the company from Future Electronics Inc. in 2015. The parent of RS Components and Allied Electronics & Automation has launched OKdo, a new global technology business to focus on single board computing (SBC) and the Internet of Things (IoT). OKdo has one simple…
One of the strongest brands in electronics distribution, Newark, is re-claiming its name. Beginning March 1, Newark element14 has changed its name to Newark, an Avnet Company. Customers have known the business as Newark since it was established in the 1930s, and this name change acknowledges its strong relationship with its customers and its role as a key…
Premier Farnell announced a distribution agreement for the worldwide distribution of IDT’s RF, timing, memory interface, real-time interconnect, optical interconnect, wireless power and sensing solutions through all of the Premier Farnell companies. Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT) (NASDAQ: IDTI) together with Premier Farnell, The Development Distributor, today announced a partnership agreement for the worldwide distribution of…
Avnet, a leading global technology distributor, today announced that its “Ask Avnet” intelligent agent has moved into open beta, providing access to anyone in the Americas who visits Avnet.com to the diverse engineering knowledge base across the Avnet ecosystem, including Avnet, Hackster.io and element14. The first platform of its kind in electronics distribution, Ask Avnet is a tool that combines artificial intelligence (AI) and human…
The Avnet Inc. that just closed fiscal 2017 is significantly different from the Avnet of a year ago. Following a rollercoaster ride of M&A, executive turnover and internal-systems challenges, Avnet ended Q4 with sales up 16.1 percent year-over-year. Driven by organic growth of 8.4 percent, Avnet’s Q4 revenue reached of $4.6 billion from $3.9 billion…
Two months ago, Phil Gallagher re-joined Avnet—his employer for 32 years – after leaving Avnet and spending a year with specialty distributor TTI Inc. Gallagher, who was named president of Avnet’s Core Distribution business in April, returned to a different company than the one he left. Most significantly, Avnet has a new CEO; sold its…
Chicago, Ill. – element14 has signed an agreement to be the exclusive global distribution and manufacturing partner of Motorola for its new maker and developer-focused Moto Mods Development Kit (MDK). The MDK is designed to connect to the new Motorola Moto Z smartphone and enable makers to create their own Moto Mods, creating custom applications that transform the capabilities of…
Chicago, Ill. – element14, the world’s largest electronic design community, launches today its 2016 Pi IoT Smarter Spaces Design Challenge featuring the new Bluetooth and wireless enabled Raspberry Pi 3 microcomputer. The Pi IoT Smarter Spaces competition is challenging members to invent IoT-powered solutions that allow users to control the multiple Internet-enabled devices in any environment – be it their…
Chicago, Ill. – element14 and NXP today announced the launch of NXP’s new Freedom Development Platform K66F for Kinetis K66, K65 and K26 MCUs, which offers optimized performance, scalable integration and low power capabilities. The NXP Freedom Development Platform K66F is ideal for developing low cost, low power applications to replace 8- and 16-bit devices with 32-bit performance particularly…
Global electronics distributor and online community element14 is launching two cutting-edge Internet of Things (IoT) starter kits that tap into technologies from EnOcean and IBM. Both Entrepreneur and Enterprise editions feature micro-computer boards from element14 and energy harvesting wireless sensors from EnOcean, and provide seamless integration to IBM’s Watson IoT Platform. The new kits are officially launching both at IBM Interconnect…