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As a leading global technology distributor and solutions provider, Avnet serves more than a million customers worldwide. Our experts have helped customers realize the transformative possibilities of technology for more than a century, so we have a deep understanding of the most impactful challenges and opportunities that designers and engineers face today. Avnet Insights packages up Avnet’s expertise and provides timely, objective research on trends driving electronics distribution and design, with the goal of helping our customers and suppliers around the world stay ahead.

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Embracing AI: Electronics engineers explore abundant opportunities in design and development with AI In the next of our series, the Avnet Insights report shows how AI has penetrated almost every aspect of the design process and functionality of electronic products. 2025 looks to be one of the most transformative years for AI’s role in product development and enhancement.
Beyond the Chip Shortage: OEM strategies for future-proofing designs In the third of a series, this Avnet Insights report indicates that access to most components has significantly improved while engineers stick with tried-and-true tactics to manage the vagaries of supply and demand.
The Chip Shortage: Navigating from efficiency to resiliency In the second of a series, this Avnet Insights report documents how the ongoing chip shortage is impacting engineering, procurement and supply chain professionals who work with electronic components and the steps they are taking in response. Some are starting to implement more strategic initiatives that will give them the ability to quickly adapt to changing conditions.
Navigate 2023 with these chip supply insights Designers, supply chain experts and distributors like Avnet flipped the script to prioritize long-term resiliency over short-term efficiency. That understanding couples well with today’s strong customer preference to strengthen relationships with key partners who have deep supply chain understanding. And as the semiconductor industry adapts to the hard lessons of chip shortages, supply chain resilience moves to the forefront this year, as companies must implement longer-range strategies to navigate disruption.
Diagnostic Wearables: The future of medical monitoring The world of diagnostic wearables is rapidly evolving, redefining medical monitoring. The swift growth of these applications is creating exciting opportunities, but it is also bringing a multitude of design challenges. To better understand pace of adoption and impact of a growing ecosystem of advocates while assessing the challenges and tradeoff impeding product delivery, Molex and Avnet conducted a global survey on Diagnostic Wearables: The Future of Medical Monitoring. See the survey results of over 600 qualified individuals in design engineering roles with responsibility for diagnostic wearables.
Global supply chain disruptions in 2022: Challenges and Opportunities A stable supply chain is critical for a company to maintain normal production and business operations. Distributors play a key role in the industry chain. They are required to relay important market information and communicate customer demands to suppliers in a timely fashion, thus ensuring that upstream and downstream players can quickly produce and provide goods.
Deconstructing the Chip Shortage: The Impact on Product Design From skyrocketing chip prices to more time spent searching for parts and new concerns about counterfeiting, the ongoing chip shortage is having a major impact on product design. This study examines the ways in which design engineers have been affected by the challenge and steps they are taking when preferred parts and procurement channels are not available.
2021 Global IoT Trends Report What’s most important in IoT implementation and who should own the data gathered by edge devices? What one factor would accelerate the benefits of the IoT? Farnell asked its global customer base in a survey conducted September-December 2020. See the results of the survey of almost 2,100 customers.