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AI is changing the game. Whether you're working on systems that act intelligently in a specific domain (narrow AI), or in general (strong AI). Designing those systems is no easy task. Explore our resources to stay up to date in the world of AI trends, technology, and technical expertise.
Shaping the future of Healthcare - Avnet Silica's latest webinar series
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Harvey Wilson
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January 20, 2025
With the growing demand for personalised healthcare, remote monitoring, and advanced diagnostic tools, innovative electronics are paving the way for safer, smarter, and more efficient medical devices.
Kits not bits - fast tracking edge AI development with ease and no risk
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Harvey Wilson
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September 16, 2024
This article looks at how these modules have evolved from development tools, for teaching and prototyping, to enterprise-quality components that can simplify your product development while meeting industrial standards.
Accelerating the Development of “Smart” Industrial Equipment
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Harvey Wilson
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September 16, 2024
This article elaborates challenges before discussing how the Arduino product portfolio and ecosystem accelerates time to market.
Defect visual inspection using AI enables multiple emerging markets
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Michaël Uyttersprot
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August 8, 2024
Machine vision is enabling many existing and emerging markets. Security, manufacturing and industrial automation all use machine vision. Adding artificial intelligence (AI) inferencing at the sensor provides many benefits. Industrial automation combines ...
How is AI changing the electronics industry?
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Philip Ling
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May 22, 2024
Artificial intelligence has the potential to influence every part of any company. As a trusted partner and leader in technology, Avnet has a responsibility to its customers and suppliers to consider the impact of AI from all angles.
Why AI and embedded design share the same DNA
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Philip Ling
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May 22, 2024
Intelligence comes in many forms. More of us are interacting with devices that appear to understand us. What and how they understand depends on the technology inside. How are embedded engineers implementing intelligence?
Why AI must redefine processor architectures
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Philip Ling
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May 22, 2024
Artificial neural networks are complex, multi-layered and multi-dimensional arrays of interconnected numerical values. Executing the math behind those connections is at the heart of AI. This math is unlike any other in the digital domain.
Learn how AI and the latest CPM technologies optimize patient rehabilitation
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Avnet Staff
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February 21, 2024
Continuous passive motion (CPM) is now a critical part of patient rehabilitation. New technologies, including artificial intelligence, are helping medical OEMs take the next step to optimize patient therapy.
What is the impact of using AI in 5G networks
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Avnet Staff
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August 22, 2023
AI is impacting the performance, security and maintenance of 5G networks. Network operators are racing to reap the benefits. AI promises to deliver returns on network investment and improve the end-customer experience along the way.
Advancing quality control: The Evolution, Impact and Future of Defect Visual Inspection (DVI) in Manufacturing
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Michaël Uyttersprot
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July 26, 2023
In the complex realm of manufacturing, Defect Visual Inspection (DVI) has emerged as a critical process, evolving significantly over time.
Placing greater intelligence at the edge
December 15, 2022
With the number of connected nodes that make up the Internet of Things (IoT) growing on a daily basis, it is universally accepted that the way in which machine learning (ML) inferencing is executed has to change.
AI-based image recognition does the hard work
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Philip Ling
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October 21, 2022
Taking pictures is easy. Analyzing images is the hard part. Let algorithms do the heavy lifting and get better results, faster.
The Future looks great
April 27, 2022
Are you excited about the future or are you worried? Are you expecting good things or more misery?
Smart Sensors: Smart Eyes for IoT
April 27, 2022
Technicians have been reluctant to use cameras for IoT because they were considered too expensive.
Optical BCI: Silent Speech – Close, But Not Close enough (Yet)
April 25, 2022
Housed in its top-secret Skunkworks tucked away in Building 8 on Meta’s campus in Menlo Park, Facebook Reality Labs (FRL).
Invasive IoT: The Internet of Bodies
April 22, 2022
Brain interfaces may be a future goal but, here and now, WiFi devices are increasingly becoming integral to the delivery of quality healthcare.
Augmented Humanity: The Man Machine
April 21, 2022
Psychokinesis, or mind over matter, is a popular dream of sci-fi and horror story writers.
Creating the Future
April 21, 2022
Smart homes and factories, smart clothing (socalled “wearables”), autonomous cars, trucks and drones and other stuff from the world of science fiction.
How to get to market with Machine Learning
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Michaël Uyttersprot
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March 24, 2022
Artificial Intelligence (AI) will become so commonplace it will be taken for granted. We can say this with some confidence, because so many semiconductor manufacturers already have embedded processors that are designed for AI.
Artificial intelligence Joins the Fight Against Global Corruption
March 17, 2022
Given that Artificial intelligence (AI) has been useful in so many ventures, anti-corruption scholars are eager to apply it to their work.
How space robotics extends our capabilities and insights
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Paul Leys
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March 8, 2022
In August 2012, Voyager 1, a spacecraft launched by NASA in 1977, became the first human-made object to reach interstellar space.
AI/ML related applications emerging within the space industry
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Paul Leys
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March 8, 2022
Rapidly growing interest in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in space exploration and commercialisation is being fuelled by the promise that it can improve the robustness and cut the cost of missions.
Can edge controllers bring balance to the Industrial IoT?
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Philip Ling
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January 19, 2022
Putting more real-time intelligence at the heart of industrial automation is creating a new breed of control technology. Connectivity and control must go hand in hand in the Industrial IoT, but it requires the best of both worlds.
Three future Industrial IoT trends manufacturers should think about now
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Philip Ling
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January 11, 2022
AI may be the headline act, but a greater impact on manufacturing will come from the trends enabled by AI. OEMs can expect to feel the impact in three areas.
Best practices and use cases for machine learning in industrial automation
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Michaël Uyttersprot
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September 13, 2021
Avnet Silica experts present a range of application examples and solution approaches for the use of machine learning in manufacturing
Science Fiction or Science Fact?
June 4, 2021
Two major forces are at work in the realm of exponential technologies: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and human genome engineering.
Sustainable Investment: IoT for good
May 30, 2021
The pandemic has served as a reminder of how fragile our society, infrastructure, and business models can be.
Robotic Floor Care: Cleaning Up after Covid
May 30, 2021
In a pandemic, cleaning becomes more complex and cannot be put off till outside normal working hours.
Top 10 pitfalls in developing machine vision systems with artificial intelligence
April 28, 2021
Machine vision (MV) and artificial intelligence (AI) provide valuable inspection and analysis capabilities to a wide range of leading-edge applications. As with all advanced technologies, there are pitfalls to avoid.
FPGA vs. GPU vs. CPU – hardware options for AI applications
April 28, 2021
Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) deliver many advantages to artificial intelligence (AI) applications. How do graphics processing units (GPUs) and traditional central processing units (CPUs) compare?