Distribution

Charcroft Electronics has published a new linecard representing its specialisation in the design-in and sourcing of COTS, high-reliability and sector-approved components. Likely to be most relevant for avionics, high-end audio, defence, oil and gas, rail and space sectors, the line-card covers passives, electromechanical, opto-electronics, RF and microwave components, as well as magnetics, power supplies, sensors and high-reliability semiconductors. The linecard ...

Described as a universal assistant for smart factories, Talking Pi from Joy-it is an open source, speech control intelligent module for systems and connected applications in smart factories and industrial control. The module, now available from Conrad Business Supplies, serves as an extension to Raspberry Pi, allows the control of lights, individual sockets or devices by voice command. A bracket ...

Arrow has bought eInfochips to expand Arrow’s IoT “sensor-to-sunset” platform by adding engineering, solution architecture, embedded software development, security, mobile device connectivity, app development, cloud configuration and management, and managed services including big-data analytics. “Upon close of this acquisition, eInfochips advances our IoT strategy, expands our offerings, and moves us into the rapidly growing IoT services market. As a result, we ...

Farnell has become the  Gold Hardware Sponsor of Astonhack, a 24-hour Hackathon organised by Aston Computer Science Society and held at Aston University in Birmingham as part of Major League Hacking’s 18th season. The organisers define a Hackathon as “where teams of up to four people work together to build something over 24 hours. Challengers have 24 hours to build, ...

Arrow Electronics has entered into a global distribution agreement with Alorium Technology, a provider of compact, high-performance embedded computing solutions for the industrial and commercial internet of things (IoT) markets, technology startups and the advanced maker movement. Arrow will sell Alorium’s FPGA-based solutions, including the XLR8 development board that enables new levels of performance and programmability for Arduino projects, as ...

Online distributor Digi-Key has achieved sales growth of 40% for Harwin product lines.

Mouser will distribute the SensiEdge range of SensiBLE  board-level IoT modules and development tools. As part of the agreement, Mouser is stocking the company’s low-power SensiBLE IoT edge module and accompanying SensiBLE development kit with integrated debugger, which enable designers to reduce the length of IoT prototyping cycles through the combination of the module’s embedded IoT software and hardware both ...

Growth in the 2017 UK electronic components market is set to continue into 2018 and for years to come, distributors forecast. The UK market for electronic components is likely to continue its stellar 2017 growth well into next year, according to forecasts from the Electronic Components Supply Network (ECSN). The organisation, which represents distributors, has reported that sales growth in ...

US distributor takes aim at the European market with a proposal to extend its Minnesota site. US distributor Digi-Key Electronics is planning to break ground on a new $300m extension to its distribution centre that will more than double its capacity in a move to increase its market share in Europe. The business, which sends out around 80,000 items a ...

Farnell element14 has a range of LoRaWAN products from The Things Network. The Things Gateway, The Things Uno and The Things Node which enable users to create LoRaWAN internet of things networks quickly and easily. Using The Things Network Gateway you can setup a LoRaWAN network in just 5 minutes – you can then use The Things Node to create ...