Avnet Silica
About
About Avnet Silica
Avnet Silica supports robot designers from component selection through production, combining semiconductor distribution with system architecture, reference designs, development kits and lifecycle supply. Its portfolio covers processors, FPGAs, AI accelerators, cameras, inertial and environmental sensors, industrial networking, wireless connectivity, motor control and power electronics for industrial, mobile, service and collaborative machines.
Development paths include NXP i.MX platforms with ROS 2 and real-time industrial interfaces, AMD KR260 adaptive-computing kits, x86 embedded processors and vision-AI modules from multiple partners. Engineers use these building blocks for sensor fusion, deterministic control, onboard inference, secure communications and efficient motor drives. Avnet Silica supplies and integrates the electronic foundation around each product roadmap.
Supply
Supply chain relationships
- Weston Robot
Outbound - Compute & Control - Avnet Silica supplies edge-AI hardware and engineering used in Weston Robot autonomous inspection robots
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Timeline
Events
- 2026-08-05 - Product Launch - Weston Robot and Avnet unveil autonomous industrial-inspection platform
The platform combines AMD edge-AI compute with visual and thermal analytics for on-robot anomaly detection. Its navigation stack uses 3D-LiDAR SLAM to operate in GPS-denied industrial environments. Avnet supplies the compute and integration stack while Weston Robot contributes the autonomous robotic platform and deployment engineering.
Source - 2025-12-18 - Partnership - DEEPX signs strategic partnership with Avnet Silica to expand into Europe, the Middle East, and Africa
DEEPX signed a franchise agreement with Avnet Silica to distribute its ultra-low-power NPUs across EMEA. The company said the partnership targeted industrial edge markets including autonomous mobile robots, machine vision, smart factories, and smart-city systems. DEEPX framed the agreement as the start of a full-scale European market expansion built around commercial access to its physical-AI semiconductor platform.
Source - 2023-05-23 - Market Signal - Avnet Silica names Paltech winner of Robotics & Adaptive Computing Challenge
Avnet Silica named Paltech GmbH the winner of its BayStartUP Robotics & Adaptive Computing Challenge, run in collaboration with AMD. The 12-week program supported early-stage startups working in AI-enabled robotics, machine vision, industrial communication, and control. Paltech's winning concept used robots and a drone for automated, herbicide-free weed control in grassland environments.
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Relations
Relationships
- DEEPX
Emea Distributor - Avnet Silica signed a franchise distribution agreement for DEEPX NPUs across EMEA.
Context
Comparable profiles
- WOLF Advanced Technology
stack adjacency - Edge AI Hardware
Shared workflows
- Ryoyo Ryosan
workflow adjacency - Electronics Component Distribution
- Asmec
workflow adjacency - Electronics Component Distribution
- Omnia Wheels
workflow adjacency - Autonomous Mobile Robot Subsystems
- ez-Wheel
workflow adjacency - Autonomous Mobile Robot Subsystems
Context tags
- Embedded Systems Support - Peer Group
- Robotics Electronics - Stack Layer
- Electronics distribution supplier - Peer Group
- Semiconductor Distribution - Peer Group
- Autonomous Mobile Robot Subsystems - Workflow
- Industrial OEM Customers - Customer Environment
- Electronics distribution - Stack Layer
- Electronics component distribution - Workflow
- Edge AI Hardware - Stack Layer
- Electronics robotics supply chain - Customer Environment