“Energy Micro’s choice of Avnet Memec as their pan-European distribution partner highlights Energy Micro’s trust in our design-in expertise across Europe and our effectiveness in bringing leading edge technology to market. This technology offers customers a tremendous cost and time saving alternative when designing with embedded microcontrollers,” stated Steve Haynes, president Avnet Memec.

Avnet Memec has signed a pan-European distribution agreement with Energy Micro. Under the terms of this agreement, Avnet Memec will distribute Energy Micro’s complete range of low power EFM32 Gecko microcontroller products. The agreement will be effective March 1st, 2010. Energy Micro's mission is to develop, market and sell the energy friendly microcontrollers, based on the ARM Cortex-M3 architecture.