Symmetry Electronics and TAIYO YUDEN Announce Distribution Agreement
LOS ANGELES and CHICAGO - Symmetry Electronics, a global authorized distributor specializing in wireless and video embedded semiconductor products, and TAIYO YUDEN, a leading global supplier of high quality electronic components, today announced a global partnership and distribution agreement. With this affiliation design engineers around the world will now have access TAIYO YUDEN’s well-known brand of wireless module products and Symmetry’s full range of services.
Symmetry Electronics supports its customers with sales and engineering teams along with an established e-commerce site aimed at helping engineers start their latest wireless and video designs. This partnership between Symmetry and TAIYO YUDEN assists electronic manufacturers by offering certified solutions, optimizing their designs and decreasing their time to market.
TAIYO YUDEN is a worldwide electronic component manufacturer with a wide application base for their technology. They have achieved growth by undertaking the research, development, manufacture and sale of capacitors, inductors, circuit modules and energy devices. Symmetry’s partnership will promote TAIYO YUDEN’s line of wireless modules including WLAN+ Bluetooth combo modules, single WLAN modules, Bluetooth Low Energy + classic Bluetooth module, single Bluetooth Low Energy modules, as well as GPS and other wireless modules.
“TAIYO YUDEN’s portfolio of wireless modules is a great complement to the technologies we have at Symmetry,” said Scott Wing, President of Symmetry Electronics. “TAIYO YUDEN is a quality, respected brand that our sales engineers will love to have when presenting to wireless design engineers. As volumes for wireless modules increase there is a significant need for a reliable and dedicated module partner from our customer base, especially a partner that offers modules with a combination of different wireless technologies,” said Wing.
Nick Miyazaki, TAIYO YUDEN’s Director of New Markets & Sales in the US said, “TAIYO YUDEN, as an electronic components manufacturer, aims to continually transform and improve our business model and build a stronger earnings structure. Specifically, we will increase the sales ratio in IoT market by making use of our strengths in product development. Along with these efforts, we will concentrate on creating new businesses that range from high value-added modules combined with software solution proposals. Our newly formed relationship with Symmetry Electronics is a critical part of this strategy for us in the Americas.”