New-Tech Europe Magazine | August 2017

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TTI achieves top marks in TDK’s European Distribution Awards

TTI, Inc., a world leading specialist distributor of electronic components, has been honoured with a ‘Senten Manten’ European Distribution Award in gold from TDK Europe. This is the second consecutive year that TTI has received the top award in the International Volume Distributor category. Senten Manten is a Japanese term that translates as ‘perfect result’ that

with our franchise suppliers. Therefore, we welcome any efforts to measure and improve our relationships. The TDK Senten Manten awards are achieved by stringent analysis of performance according to a strict framework of criteria. These results are very useful in building, maintaining and strengthening the fantastic co-operation we have with TDK. We are honoured to receive this award and thank TDK very much.”

is achieved with a score of 1000. TDK’s annual assessment of distribution partners is scored rigorously on distributors’ performance and collaboration with TDK in four categories: business performance, inventory management, contractual terms and operational excellence. To achieve an award, distributors must score at least 600/1000.

training artificial neural networks on the Intel® Nervana™ cloud, optimizing for emerging workloads such as artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, and automated driving with Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, or taking AI to the edge with Movidius vision processing unit (VPU) technology, Intel offers a comprehensive AI portfolio of tools, training and deployment options for the next generation of AI-powered products and services. “The Myriad 2 VPU housed inside the Movidius Neural Compute Stick provides powerful, yet efficient performance – more than 100 gigaflops of performance within a 1W power envelope – to run real-time deep neural networks directly from the device,” said Remi El-Ouazzane, vice president and general manager of Movidius, an Intel company. “This enables a wide range of AI applications to be deployed offline.” Added Dietmar Jaeger, head of the TDK’s distribution business in Europe and Vice President of the Global Sales Distribution: “TTI has always been an outstanding performer in our distribution network. We share the same goal – to deliver the best possible value to our customers – which is an excellent basis for our partnership. We are delighted that TTI continues to achieve such high results in our awards program and thank every member of their team for their commitment, energy and expertise. ”

Commented Felix Corbett, Director, Supplier Marketing, TTI, Inc. in Europe: “We can only deliver the levels of service and support that our customers demand if we work in partnership Intel Democratizes Deep Learning Application Development with Launch of Movidius Neural Compute Stick

Today, Intel launched the Movidius™ Neural Compute Stick, the world’s first USB-based deep learning inference kit and self-contained artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator that delivers dedicated deep neural network processing capabilities to a wide range of host devices at the edge. Designed for product developers, researchers and

makers, the Movidius Neural Compute Stick aims to reduce barriers to developing, tuning and deploying AI applications by delivering dedicated high-performance deep-neural network processing in a small form factor. As more developers adopt advanced machine learning approaches to build innovative applications and solutions, Intel is committed to providing the most comprehensive set of development tools and resources to ensure developers are retooling for an AI-centric digital economy. Whether it is

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