The "2024 'IoT Star' China IoT Industry Annual List" was officially released recently.
Congratulations to Avnet Electronics Technology (Shenzhen) Ltd., a leading global electronic component technology distributor and solution provider, for winning three awards in the "2024 'IoT Star' China Internet of Things Industry Annual List", including the "Top 100 Chinese Internet of Things Companies in 2024", "2024 China Internet of Things Industry Innovative Products List" and "2024 China Internet of Things Industry Outstanding People List".
Company Introduction
Avnet Electronics Technology (Shenzhen) Ltd.
Avnet was founded in 1921 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1959 (stock code: AVT). It is a leading global technology distributor and solution provider, focusing on the distribution of semiconductors, interconnects, passive and electromechanical components, and providing high-quality technical support and services to more than 100,000 customers worldwide.
Over the past century, Avnet has always adhered to its original intention to meet the ever-changing needs of customers. Whether from conception to design, from prototype creation to production, Avnet can provide customers with full support at every stage of the product life cycle.
With its core position in the IoT technology value chain, Avnet can speed up design and supply during product development, thereby helping customers quickly realize revenue. For many years, Avnet has been committed to promoting technological changes for global customers and suppliers. At present, Avnet has branches in 125 countries and regions and ranks among the Fortune 500 companies in the United States.
Avnet Electronics Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Avnet in China, providing technology and supply chain services to thousands of domestic leading customers. Through a complete ecosystem and a portfolio of design and supply chain services, it supports the entire product life cycle of customers, entrepreneurs and enterprises of all sizes. With deep design and engineering expertise, combined with comprehensive distribution and integration capabilities, Avnet has a unique advantage in meeting the stringent time-to-market requirements of global customers, while helping customers reduce risks and reduce costs.
2024 Business Overview
In 2024, Avnet ranked 157th on the Fortune 500 list in the United States, and achieved revenue of US$23.8 billion in the 2024 fiscal year from July 2023 to June 2024.
In 2024, Avnet actively deployed in multiple industries and achieved significant development. It has carried out in-depth cooperation with partners such as Desay SV, Sifang Co., Ltd., CRRC Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive, Huaqin Technology, Hangzhou Boco Electronics, Anjieli, and Yidingfeng Power. Its business covers a wide range of fields such as automotive electronics, industrial automation, rail transportation, and smart products, and has won many awards and honors with its outstanding technical capabilities and market performance.
The SMARC/OSM standard edge computing module and supporting design solutions launched by Avnet in 2024 provide a new solution for the edge computing field with its excellent performance and innovative design.
The module supports multiple processor platforms of ARM and x86 architectures, and is compatible with single-core, multi-core and heterogeneous processors of Intel, AMD, NXP, TI, Qualcomm, and Renesas. Its computing power can reach up to 50-80TOPS, supports multiple NPUs and multiple PCIe channels, connects to GPU computing cards, and provides optional FPGA AI acceleration technology.
In addition, the module also supports a variety of industrial control buses and protocols, which can meet the large, medium and small computing power requirements of edge AI, and is widely used in medical, industrial control, robotics, AI brain, new energy and other fields.
The design of all modules strictly complies with the international standards of COM/SMARC/OSM interfaces, adopts SmartFlex baseboard design, adapts to a variety of cross-platform computing modules, provides BIOS customization and other development tools, supports multiple operating systems such as Windows and Linux, and meets professional technical certifications in multiple markets.
At the same time, Avnet's Tria™ independent modular embedded computing series solution further expands the application scenarios of this product, using the latest platforms and processors from multiple semiconductor manufacturers such as AMD, Microsoft, NXP, Qualcomm, Renesas, etc., which can achieve rapid development of applications such as the Internet of Things, industrial interconnection and edge computing, providing significant competitive advantages.
List of Outstanding People in China's Internet of Things Industry in 2024
Avnet's Senior Director of Supplier and Product Marketing for China, Cai Zongfu, was recognized in the "2024 'IoT Star' China IoT Industry Annual List" list of outstanding figures.
Since joining Avnet in 2004, Cai Zongfu has accumulated rich experience in multiple key positions such as technology, product lines and team management with his deep R&D and engineering background, demonstrating outstanding leadership and professional talents. Under his leadership, the team has won many honors and awards from semiconductor manufacturers and customers, and has also repeatedly won important awards from within the company, including Avnet's "Asia Star Achiever Award" and Avnet China's "China Best Achievement Award SPM team".
On the personal side, Cai Zongfu won the honor of Avnet China's first "Reginal President Award" in fiscal year 2022, which is a recognition of his leadership and contribution.
With his keen market insights and management capabilities, Cai Zongfu has cultivated talents, empowered teams, and successfully expanded the coverage of multiple semiconductor manufacturers. He not only effectively sorted out the newly introduced semiconductor product lines, but also reintegrated the existing products, which enabled its turnover to grow several times in a few years, with outstanding performance.
In addition, he led the team to provide customers in the fields of industrial interconnection, Edge AI, artificial intelligence, energy applications, etc. with a full range of supply chain services and technical support, helping customers optimize design, procurement, production and delivery, and also using a set of additional services and technical support to successfully help customers expand new businesses to the whole country and even overseas.
Avnet is bringing new breakthroughs in the field of edge computing. We also congratulate Avnet again for winning the "2024 'Internet of Things Star' China Internet of Things Industry Annual List" "2024 China Internet of Things Enterprise Top 100", "2024 China Internet of Things Industry Innovation Product List" and "2024 China Internet of Things Industry Outstanding People List".
This paper is from Ulink Media, Shenzhen, China, the organizer of IOTE EXPO (IoT Expo in China)
