Press Release Details

Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, the largest operating group of Avnet Inc. (NYSE: AVT), further demonstrated its commitment to providing "just-in-time" technical expertise to design engineers today by announcing the launch of the Avnet Design Resource Center(TM), an online tool that gives engineers streamlined access to hardware evaluation kits, development tools, and reference designs including associated product documentation to speed the electronic applications design and development cycle. The Avnet Design Resource Center also helps design engineers compare and select products best suited for their specific designs. The Avnet Design Resource Center offers kits which represent a wide range of processing and support technologies.

"Avnet Electronics Marketing supports our customers by making investments in areas where they ask for help -- such as speeding development time by helping them stay up to date on a wide variety of technologies for use in their designs," said Jeff Ittel, senior vice president, Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas. "The Avnet Design Resource Center is just one example of how we deliver industry-leading design chain support and world-class supply chain services to meet our customers' needs, from product concept through production."

Avnet takes a "just-in-time" approach to design services -- providing technical assistance and training from development to production, and throughout the product lifecycle. Specifically, the Avnet Design Resource Center allows users to purchase evaluation kits and provides access to reference designs online, including supporting tools and documentation developed by Avnet and its suppliers. Tools include:

-- Product briefs

-- User and programming guides

-- Schematics

-- Builds of materials (BOM)

-- Erratas

-- Application notes

-- Reference designs (and supporting files, including Gerber files for select products)

-- Test files

-- Additional documentation as needed

The Avnet Design Resource Center has been in beta since May of this year while the company added features and functionality to the site. With limited promotion, the tool has received approximately 200,000 page impressions and each of the 80 kits averaged 1,200 page views during the month of June. The solution complements other Avnet design chain services which include: engineering services, design tools, technical resources and technical education including Web seminars, Avnet On-Ramp Technical Sessions(TM) and Avnet SpeedWay Design Workshops(TM).

"Engineering and design chain services are at the core of what we do," said Rafael Cruz, vice president of Design Services at Avnet Electronics Marketing. "In distribution, design expertise is a differentiator. Customers choose and rely on Avnet Electronics Marketing to help them reduce the time it takes to move designs from the planning stage to full-scale production, improving their time to revenue."

All of the information in the Avnet Design Resource Center is carefully reviewed or created by Avnet factory trained and certified electronics engineers' with an average of 16 years of design experience. Customers can subscribe to receive updated versions of documentation and other materials as they are changed. Currently more than 10 suppliers are represented in the Avnet Design Resource Center, with more suppliers and products to be added in the coming months.

The Avnet Design Resource Center is available at www.em.avnet.com/drc.

About Avnet Electronics Marketing

Avnet Electronics Marketing is the largest operating group of Phoenix-based Avnet Inc., a Fortune 500 company. Avnet Electronics Marketing serves electronic original equipment manufacturers (EOEMs) and electronic manufacturing services (EMS) providers in 68 countries, distributing electronic components from leading manufacturers and providing associated design-chain and supply-chain services. The group's Web site is located at http://www.em.avnet.com.

Avnet enables success from the center of the technology industry, providing cost-effective services and solutions vital to a broad base of more than 100,000 customers and 300 suppliers. The company markets, distributes and adds value to a wide variety of electronic components, enterprise computer products and embedded subsystems. Through its premier market position, Avnet brings a breadth and depth of capabilities that help its trading partners accelerate growth and realize cost efficiencies. For fiscal year ended July 2, 2005, Avnet and the recently acquired Memec (closed July 5, 2005) generated combined revenue in excess of $13 billion in the past year through sales in approximately 70 countries. Visit www.avnet.com/.

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