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Dive into the second issue of Avnet’s digital magazine, What’s Next.

We call this The Sustainability Issue, and it’s filled with content that brings together the best and brightest engineering talent from across Avnet to guide engineers on a path to great design.

It explores why chip makers and electronics device manufacturers are taking aim at sustainability. There are opportunities as well as challenges to a more sustainable value chain. This issue of What’s Next discusses the industry’s environmental, social and economic impacts from concept to end-of-life, and it covers everything from material selection to energy efficiency.

The latest issue features:

• Cover article: How an environmentally conscious semiconductor industry takes on sustainability.
• Editorial: ESG Director Stacy Mendez discusses Avnet’s commitment to help all parties in the value chain innovate and advance technology with sustainability in mind.
• Taking a sustainable approach to making sustainable products: What does it really take to call a product green?
• Faster, hotter chips need smarter cooling solutions: The time is right for liquid-cooled data centers and Avnet has assembled the right the technology partners.
• Podcastic sustainability conversations: Hear about the green solutions inventors worldwide are bringing to market.
• Developers deliver innovations for a sustainable planet: Read how the next generation of visionaries are combining IoT, AI and edge computing to deliver new technologies to promote sustainability.
• What are EV OEMs asking from power semiconductors in APAC?: We asked Robert Chang, director of field applications for Avnet in Taiwan, how he sees the market, what OEMs are asking Avnet to help with, and what suppliers are doing in response.
• Pulse on sustainable design: We asked engineers how the electronics industry can make the greatest impact in design for sustainability.
• PLUS: An FAE Roundtable discussion about embedded software development using free software.

Explore the latest issue now.