Energy Micro and Avnet Memec Americas Celebrate Earth Day by Inking Distribution Agreement

Phoenix, USA and Oslo, Norway, April 22nd, 2010 - Energy efficiency has become a paramount concern for design engineers, particularly in the mobile market. Earth Day is a fitting time to talk about what Avnet, Inc. can do to help. Avnet Memec and Energy Micro have joined forces to provide energy-efficient solutions to the design community. Following the successful pan-European distribution agreement, Avnet Memec, a division of Avnet Electronics Marketing has signed a contract with Energy Micro® for distribution of the ultra low power EFM®32 Gecko microcontroller products throughout the Americas region. Energy Micro provides the world's most energy friendly microcontrollers, based on the modern and powerful ARM Cortex-M3 architecture.

"Our customers are looking for low power, high performance microcontroller solutions – especially in the handheld mobile arena," said Phil Sansone, senior vice president of Avnet Memec. "Energy Micro’s line of low power, energy efficient ARM Cortex-M3s is an excellent solution ensuring we meet the growing energy efficiency needs of our customers."

"Energy Micro is pleased to extend our partnership with Avnet Memec,” said Geir Førre, Energy Micro’s president and CEO. "Avnet Memec is a design-in focused distributor and is a very good fit for Energy Micro. Avnet Memec has the capability and motivation to promote the EFM32 ultra low power microcontrollers. We will now be able to reach out and promote our state- of-the-art products to local customers."

For further information and reader enquiries:

Øyvind Borgan, Energy Micro AS, PO Box 4633, Nydalen, N-405 Oslo, Norway

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Avnet Electronics Marketing
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About Energy Micro
Energy Micro develops, markets and sells the world's most energy friendly microcontrollers, based on the industry leading ARM® Cortex™-M3 32-bit architecture. The company was founded in 2007 by experienced semiconductor professionals with previous expertise from Chipcon, Texas Instruments, Atmel and Nordic Semiconductor. More information on Energy Micro is available at www.energymicro.com

About Avnet Electronics Marketing
Avnet Electronics Marketing is an operating group of Phoenix-based Avnet, Inc. that serves electronic original equipment manufacturers (EOEMs) and electronic manufacturing services (EMS) providers in more than 70 countries, distributing electronic components from leading manufacturers and providing associated design-chain and supply-chain services. The group's Web site is located at www.em.avnet.com. Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), a Fortune 500 company, is one of the largest distributors of electronic components, computer products and embedded technology in the world. Avnet accelerates its partners’ success by connecting the world’s leading technology suppliers with a broad base of more than 100,000 customers and providing cost-effective, value-added services and solutions. For the fiscal year ended June 27, 2009, Avnet generated revenue of $16.23 billion. For more information, visit www.avnet.com.