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.

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From Robots to Production Lines: Why NPUs Are Emerging as the New Standard for Real-Time Industrial AI

By Michaël Uyttersprot - 2026年9月28日

Industrial robotics and smart factories are increasingly being designed as unified cyber-physical systems.

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From Connected Devices to Physical AI: How IoT Became the Foundation for Intelligent Systems

By Michaël Uyttersprot - 2026年9月21日

There is now a gap that defines the next phase of IoT. AI is providing the interpretation layer, while edge AI is bringing selected inference workloads closer to the source of the data.

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Why “Reliability” is Becoming a Crucial KPI in Edge AI: Moving Beyond TOPS, FPS, and Benchmark Hype

By Michaël Uyttersprot - 2026年9月11日

TOPS, FLOPS, FPS, model size, and benchmark scores have all become familiar reference points for comparing AI hardware. While these metrics matter, they do not tell the full story.

Semiconductor Market Pulse: Five Insights for Q3 2026

By Thomas Foj - 2026年8月14日

Exploring the current semiconductor market shifts, technological trends, and supply-chain signals influencing Q3 2026.

Trucking, IoT & AI: Delivering a Revolution

2026年8月11日

Artificial intelligence (AI), advanced robotics, and the Internet of Things are increasingly shaping the automotive and logistics sectors.

The New Reality of Memory Supply: Navigating the Memory Shortage

By Avnet Staff - 2026年4月28日

AI is increasingly moving from the cloud to the edge, driving additional needs in areas such as power management, sensors and microcontrollers, not just high‑end compute.

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Why Performance per Watt Is Becoming the Key Metric in Edge AI

By Michaël Uyttersprot - 2026年4月27日

In many deployments, systems must run continuously for extended periods without intervention, making reliability a primary design concern alongside performance.

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Enabling Efficient Edge AI with DEEPX NPUs and the Avnet Silica Ecosystem

By Michaël Uyttersprot - 2026年3月17日

Learn how you can enable efficient Edge AI with DEEPX NPUs and the Avnet Silica Ecosystem.

SQL Server IoT 2025: Bringing AI and Enhanced Analytics to Edge Data

By Yann Stridde - 2026年2月5日

Organisations are feeling increasing pressure to process information directly at the edge

Smart Agriculture Solutions

By Harvey Wilson - 2026年1月23日

Practical Innovations in Connectivity, Positioning and Edge Intelligence

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FPGA vs GPU vs CPU vs MCU – hardware options for AI applications

By Michaël Uyttersprot - 2026年1月6日

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?

Integrating AI in Smart Buildings

By Harvey Wilson - 2025年9月8日

The way we design, operate, and interact with buildings is evolving rapidly. With the rise of AI, IoT, and advanced analytics, buildings are transforming into intelligent, energy-efficient structures that can adapt in real time to occupant needs.

Shaping the future of Healthcare - Avnet Silica's latest webinar series

By Harvey Wilson - 2025年1月20日

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.

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Kits not bits - fast tracking edge AI development with ease and no risk

By Harvey Wilson - 2024年9月16日

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

By Harvey Wilson - 2024年9月16日

This article elaborates challenges before discussing how the Arduino product portfolio and ecosystem accelerates time to market.

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Defect visual inspection using AI enables multiple emerging markets

By Michaël Uyttersprot - 2024年8月8日

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?

By Philip Ling - 2024年5月22日

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

By Philip Ling - 2024年5月22日

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?

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Why AI must redefine processor architectures

By Philip Ling - 2024年5月22日

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.

Patients using continuous passive motion machines in a medical setting

Learn how AI and the latest CPM technologies optimize patient rehabilitation

By Avnet Staff - 2024年2月21日

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

By Avnet Staff - 2023年8月22日

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

By Michaël Uyttersprot - 2023年7月26日

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

2022年12月15日

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

By Philip Ling - 2022年10月21日

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

2022年4月27日

Are you excited about the future or are you worried? Are you expecting good things or more misery?

Smart Sensors: Smart Eyes for IoT

2022年4月27日

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)

2022年4月25日

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

2022年4月22日

Brain interfaces may be a future goal but, here and now, WiFi devices are increasingly becoming integral to the delivery of quality healthcare.

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Augmented Humanity: The Man Machine

2022年4月21日

Psychokinesis, or mind over matter, is a popular dream of sci-fi and horror story writers.

Creating the Future

2022年4月21日

Smart homes and factories, smart clothing (socalled “wearables”), autonomous cars, trucks and drones and other stuff from the world of science fiction.