SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Embedded Systems Conference 2011 – As adoption of solid state disk drives (SSDs) accelerates, enterprise and embedded manufacturers’ design engineers have a greater need to understand both the current and future opportunities available in this emerging market. Avnet Embedded, part of the Avnet Electronics Marketing operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), announced today the launch of a SSD seminar series in four locations across the North America. These technical seminars are free of charge and feature a keynote address from renowned semiconductor analyst Jim Handy, director of Objective Analysis. Registration is open now at www.em.avnet.com/ssdseminars2011. The first session takes place in Boston on May 10, 2011.
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These day-long seminars will allow design engineers the opportunity to work with the Avnet Embedded technical team, as well as technicians from suppliers Hitachi GST, Intel, Micron, OCZ Technology, Seagate and STEC to understand ways to better implement this technology into current and future designs. These sessions will illustrate how implementing SSDs eliminates seek time, latency and other electro-mechanical delays and failures associated with conventional hard disk drives (HDD). SSDs offer high-reliability and performance, conserving power and improving data retention.
“As the largest distributor of SSD technology, Avnet Embedded is committed to providing the technical training our customers need in the most cost-effective manner possible,” said Chuck Kostalnick, senior vice president, Avnet Embedded Americas. “These technical sessions offer our customers a great opportunity to stay abreast of the most current trends in the fast-growing SSD segment and accelerate their time to market.”
For more information and locations, visit www.em.avnet.com/ssdseminars2011.
About Jim Handy
Jim Handy, a widely recognized semiconductor analyst, has worked for more than 30 years in the electronics industry, including 14 years as an industry analyst for Dataquest (now Gartner) and Semico Research. Mr. Handy has a strong technical background, and is a patent holder in the field of cache memory design. He is the author of "The Cache Memory Book" (Harcourt Brace, 1993), the leading reference in the field. Mr. Handy is on the Advisory Board of the Flash Memory Summit, a member of the Embedded System Conference's Embedded Leader Community, a member of the Mass Storage Technical Working Group of the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI), a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI), and is a Leader in the Gerson Lehrman Group Councils of Advisors.
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