Can you tell us a few words about the Avnet Silica subsidiary and your experience in the semiconductor field?
Avnet Silica is a commercial entity belonging to the international Avnet group, specializing in the distribution, technical support and logistics of semiconductors.
Our main role is to be a distributor of electronic components. Our goal is to support our clients from ideation to manufacturing and deployment of solutions and services, but also to help simplify the complexity of a project and the environment in which we operate. For this, we have expert internal teams, with subsidiaries such as Witekio, an expert in embedded software; Avnet Embedded, an expert in hardware design and production of complete solutions; Softweb, expert in artificial intelligence solutions; as well as a network of partners such as Microsoft and our major semiconductor vendors with whom we have forged very strong alliances.
Precisely through this logistics activity around semiconductors, who are Avnet Silica’s customers today?
To date, we have more than 15,000 clients throughout the continent. We work in all sectors: automotive, space, infrastructures used for the communication of connected objects, connected buildings, but also the cloud, the systems to connect to it and data analysis software.
In the semiconductor industry, what are the different issues and challenges you face today?
There are several important challenges that we must respond to. The main challenge will be meeting the growing demand for semiconductors, which will continue to grow for the next ten years, if not longer, due to the massive use of electronics in many fields, such as automotive, energy, military and more.
Now, electronics are everywhere. The semiconductor is now known to the general public, we often hear about it in the news about shortages following the health crisis, linked to a massive increase in demand and the effects of geopolitical, weather and economic events.
Precisely how to respond to this increase in demand?
Faced with this increase in demand, the challenge will be to be able to guide our clients towards the technologies most suited to their needs, and towards products that may be available in larger volumes, depending on the technologies and investments.
Therefore, the objective will be to contribute our experience and our know-how of more than twenty years in this sector, to help manufacturers to better overcome these various changes linked to the increase in demand and the very rapid evolution of technologies and problems. , while integrating the whole issue of supply chain complexity.
Specifically, is the sector prepared to face this significant increase that is now part of the long term?
In our sector, and more generally in the field of electronics, we now face another great challenge around the recruitment of trained personnel.
Although the average age of the employees in the sector has increased, and although the need for resources also increases considerably to face the challenges mentioned above, we must manage to recruit massively in this sector; a sector that, however, remains very attractive given the new current and future global needs, the diversity of applications and its immediate and future social impacts.
In the coming years we will have to recruit and/or train many talents to face the new technological needs that are already disrupting the world today, and that will allow the development of tomorrow’s society.
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Source: BFM TV
