Industry News Highlights

Infineon will provide customers with comprehensive Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) data, taking a pioneering role in the semiconductor industry. The company is committed to eventually providing PCF data for its entire product portfolio, starting now with about half of its portfolio. The initiative will empower customers to advance their own sustainability goals and reduce their carbon footprint effectively along the entire supply chain. The Product Carbon Footprint is a metric that quantifies the greenhouse gas emissions associated with an individual product, allowing the comparison of different products’ climate impact.

Mouser Electronics, provides engineers with insightful and trusted resources in its 5G content hub. Mouser’s technical resource centre offers knowledge about the expansion of the reliable low-latency network. This global wireless standard offers increased bandwidth, enabling devices to connect from further distances at faster speeds, as well as enhancing machine-to-machine contact for a connected future. These upgrades impact our everyday lives, like elevating public transportation through vehicle-to-vehicle communication and levelling up your smart home with improved IoT devices and faster service. The resource centre provides a library of curated products, tools, and content to support every aspect of the connectivity revolution.

Avnet Silica has announced its cooperation with NXP Semiconductors to bring secure provisioning services to OEM and EMS customers. This consolidates the distributor’s long-standing collaboration with NXP.

Arrow Electronics has announced an EMEA distribution agreement with The Things Industries, a full-service LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) solutions provider. Building on the synergies between The Things Industries’ LoRaWAN network server, The Things Stack Cloud, and Arrow’s suite of related products, the collaboration will help reduce the total cost of ownership for LoRaWAN projects.