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Avnet Embedded to Distribute Swissbit Industrial Memory Products in the Americas

PHOENIX – October 16, 2013 – Avnet Embedded, a division of Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), has entered a distribution agreement with Swissbit, a global leader in the design, development, and manufacture of DRAM and Flash memory products. Avnet Embedded will now offer Swissbit’s high quality memory solutions to the industrial, embedded, communications and networking, military and aerospace, transportation, casino gaming, and medical equipment markets in the Americas.

Swissbit strives to create innovative technologies for future market opportunities utilizing a highly skilled in-house product research and development team. Swissbit maintains a marketing edge by continuing to manufacture world-class, high quality memory products and providing customers with both high value and low cost of ownership achieved through efficient processes and procedures. Swissbit offers a Controlled-Bill-of-Material on 100 percent of its product offering.

“Swissbit is a perfect complement to our already deep memory and SSD offering,” said Jeff Ittel, senior vice president of embedded marketing for Avnet Embedded. “Our Avnet Embedded OEM customers will benefit from Swissbit’s broad product line and exceptional quality.”

Said Vincenzo Esposito, president Americas of Swissbit, “This is a perfect addition to our sales network and for our customers. We are confident that this cooperation will create more opportunities and help customers with their designs.”

Swissbit unites Swiss precision with German perfectionism in order to achieve above average, high quality results. As a manufacturer of high reliability products, such as 2.5” SSDs, SD ™ & Micro SD ™, Compact Flash ™, USB & eUSB  and CFast ™ Flash form factors, Swissbit guarantees these ideal results through our use of both internal / external testing and compliance laboratories. Swissbit’s product development and manufacturing processes have been established, maintained, and certified in accordance with ISO 9001:2000 quality management system standards.

To view the entire Swissbit product line available from Avnet, visit www.em.avnet.com/embedded.

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