Arrow Electronics Joins Open-Source Software Pioneer Linaro to Help Bring Innovative New Boards to Market
April 28 2015 - 10:01AM
Business Wire
Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW) today announced that it has
joined Linaro Ltd., the not-for-profit engineering organization
that consolidates and optimizes open-source software for ARM
applications. Arrow is the first Linaro collaborator with both
hardware-design and distribution capabilities.
“Arrow is excited to bring its best-in-class design engineering
services, comprehensive product offerings and unparalleled global
supply chain relationships to Linaro’s open-source community,” said
Aiden Mitchell, vice president of semiconductor marketing for
Arrow. “Arrow is always thinking five years out to help guide
innovation forward, and joining Linaro is very much in line with
that mission. We look forward to working with the Linaro community
to accelerate the pace of innovation for the ARM processor
market.”
Arrow will collaborate with its supplier and manufacturer
network to design a range of standardized, open-source boards for
the Linaro 96boards.org community. These low-cost, high-performance
hardware designs would be accessible to an even greater number of
software developers, as well as the maker community and embedded
product manufacturers—effectively widening the pool of ARM
innovators, accelerating the pace of their architecture innovations
and reducing their time to market.
“96Boards is building a single software and hardware community
across low-cost development boards based on ARM Cortex-A processors
from multiple silicon vendors,” said Rob Booth, Linaro chief
operating officer. “Ensuring reliable hardware production and
distribution is key to developing this community and we're
confident that Arrow joining as the first 96Boards Manufacturing
Distributor Partner will accelerate this initiative.”
Linaro facilitates rapid industry innovation by using shared
resources to engineer common software elements for the ARM
architecture. This collaborative approach enables Linaro members to
focus more of their own resources on product differentiation and
innovation. The full scope of Linaro’s engineering work is open to
all online.
About Arrow Electronics
Arrow Electronics (www.arrow.com) is a global provider of
products, services and solutions to industrial and commercial users
of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions. Arrow
serves as a supply channel partner for more than 100,000 original
equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers and commercial
customers through a global network of more than 460 locations in 56
countries.
About Linaro
Linaro is the place where engineers from the world’s leading
technology companies define the future of open source on ARM. The
company is a not-for-profit engineering organization with over 200
engineers working on consolidating and optimizing open source
software for the ARM architecture, including developer tools, the
Linux kernel, ARM power management, and other software
infrastructure. Linaro is distribution neutral: it wants to provide
the best software foundations to everyone by working upstream, and
to reduce non-differentiating and costly low level fragmentation.
The effectiveness of the Linaro approach has been demonstrated by
Linaro’s growing membership, and by Linaro consistently being
listed as one of the top three company contributors to recent Linux
kernels. For more information, visit www.linaro.org.
Arrow Electronics, Inc.Meghan Macdonald, 303-824-4589 or
303-882-8610Communications Manager
Arrow Electronics (NYSE:ARW)
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