Smiths Interconnect, a Molex company, announces its top performing distributors in 2025. The Distribution Awards program honors distributors which have made a meaningful impact on the growth of Smiths Interconnect across its three key regions: the Americas, EMEA, and Asia.Award recipients in each region are selected based on their outstanding performance compared to the previous fiscal year and on outstanding local service and support. This year, the strong commitment and dedication shown by distributors worldwide have resulted in a larger group of recognized companies. Seven distributors in total have been distinguished for their exceptional achievements.In the Americas, FDH Electronic Products Group, LLC. has been named Distributor of the Year for the second consecutive year. This recognition reflects FDH's outstanding performance, strong partnership, and unwavering commitment to delivering exceptional service and support to its customers.Over the past year, FDH achieved impressive sales growth, demonstrating not only market strength but also a deep dedication to driving their mutual success. Their ability to navigate challenges, adapt quickly, and maintain focus on execution has been instrumental in delivering consistent results and strengthening the partnership.The second distributor recognized in the Americas as Highly Commended Distributor for Business Growth 2025 is Arrow Electronics.Through a focused and strategic customer approach, Arrow has delivered impressive business growth, reinforcing their position in driving market expansion and customer engagement.Arrow's commitment to collaboration, responsiveness, and execution has played an important role in achieving these results. Their team has consistently demonstrated the ability to identify opportunities, adapt to evolving customer needs, and deliver value across joint initiatives.In the EMEA region, Smiths Interconnect has recognized two distinct distributors for their outstanding growth throughout the year.RFMW Ltd is recognised for delivering the strongest growth in 2025 across the company's RF component product lines, reflecting exceptional commercial execution and deep customer engagement. Their results in key South European territories were achieved through a close, collaborative partnership that enabled both organisations to navigate a highly competitive landscape effectively.RFMW consistently converted design activity into revenue while expanding presence in target markets, demonstrating a shared commitment to technical excellence, partnership, and sustained value creation.For the Connectors product line, the top performing distributor was Heilind Electronics GmbH, which supported sales growth with a strong focus on the DAC countries.This success was also driven by well-managed inventory levels, enabling fast deliveries and reliable local support for customers.Last but not least, Asia was one of the most active areas from a distribution standpoint. Three key distributors were appointed: Fusoh Shoji Co., Ltd, Bizmile Co. Ltd, and Conn-Tek Electronics Inc.First, Fusoh Shoji Co., Ltd was named Distributor of the Year 2025 for the Fiber Optic and Components product lines. The company has demonstrated outstanding performance in expanding these product lines in Japan, playing a key role in strengthening its market presence and supporting a solid foundation for future growth.Meanwhile, in the Connectors product line, Korea's Bizmile Co. Ltd secured the Distributor of the Year 2025 title. Awarded for its outstanding contribution to business growth, design-in excellence, and value delivery, Bizmile demonstrated exceptional support to key accounts by driving significant growth through strong inventory commitment and strategic project support. The company also excelled in design-in activities, successfully contributing to major defense programs while consistently delivering measurable value to customers. Its strength in commercial execution, strategic account development, and an ecosystem-driven approach has enabled sustained growth, improved profitability, and strong future demand visibility.Rounding out the region's success, Conn-Tek Electronics Inc was named Distributor of the Year 2025 for the Semiconductor Test product line for the second consecutive year. This award recognizes Conn-Tek's exceptional performance across business growth, design-in excellence, and strategic market development. The company achieved remarkable revenue growth in both China and international markets while demonstrating strong leadership in design-in activities with key customers. Furthermore, Conn-Tek experienced significant expansion in high-value product segments—particularly with the DaVinci coaxial test socket—and successfully penetrated new customer markets. Its design-led, partnership-driven approach has delivered sustained growth, improved profitability, and enhanced strategic value across the Asia region.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving beyond a tool that simply answers questions and into the era of "agentic AI"—systems that make their own judgments and carry out tasks. A major event offering a comprehensive view of the latest currents in the global AI industry is once again coming to Seoul.DMK Global, COEX, and the Korea International Trade Association (KITA) announced that they will host "AI Summit Seoul & EXPO 2026" (AISE 2026) over three days, from August 19 (Wed) to 21 (Fri), at COEX in Seoul. The conference will take place in the Grand Ballroom, while a large-scale exhibition (EXPO) runs concurrently in Hall B. Since its inaugural edition in 2018, the industrial-AI-focused event—now in its ninth year—has established itself as an annual global AI event held in Seoul.The central theme this year is putting AI to real work, beyond mere adoption. As AI technology advances rapidly, companies now face a new challenge that goes beyond "whether to adopt AI" to "what authority to grant AI, and how to trust the results it produces." Generative AI has proven its value in producing answers and content; more recently, attention has turned to agent-based AI that independently makes decisions and takes action within enterprise workflows.Reflecting this shift, AISE 2026 has set its theme as "The Transformation Era: Beyond Adoption – Rise of Enterprise Agents." Rather than simply introducing technology, the event focuses on how AI agents are being applied in real business settings and how they are reshaping organizations and business models.The two-day conference, held in the COEX Grand Ballroom beginning August 19, is organized around six core themes: "AI Mega Trends," surveying fast-moving technology and market shifts; "AI Transformation," addressing changes to organizations and business models; "AI & Data," covering foundational challenges such as data labeling and MLOps; "Vertical Industry Use Cases," presenting real-world applications by sector; "AI + Robotics," exploring the convergence of AI and robotics; and the year's most talked-about theme, "Agent & Agentic AI."The global speaker lineup also stands out. Speakers include Steve Chien, a researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) who studies autonomous AI capable of independent decision-making in space; Larry Heck, a Georgia Tech professor and leading authority on conversational AI; Maxim Afanasyev of Google Cloud; Hoifung Poon, a researcher at Microsoft Research focused on AI-driven scientific discovery; and Maxime Labonne, a researcher at Liquid AI and an expert in frontier small models.In addition, representatives from leading global technology and industry companies—including Genspark, Google DeepMind, Hyundai, DHL, Notion, IDEO, Mercedes-Benz, Seagate, Adobe, and ClickHouse—will take part to share proven use cases and technical insights across industries.Running alongside the conference, the exhibition (EXPO) takes place in COEX Hall B over three days, from August 19 to 21. Roughly double the size of last year's edition, it will feature more than 100 exhibiting companies and over 30 speech and workshop sessions. A key highlight is the opportunity to survey the entire AI value chain under one roof—from LLMs and generative AI to AI hardware and infrastructure (GPUs, NPUs, and more), robotics and autonomous technologies, and industry-specific solutions. Visitors can experience live demonstrations of products and solutions already in operation at exhibitor booths, across categories including Industry AI, Enterprise AI, generative AI, AI platforms and infrastructure, and physical AI and robotics.Exhibiting companies will run demos and consultations for decision-makers from Korea and abroad, and the program includes 1:1 business matching and networking parties connecting executives, developers, investors, and researchers. EXPO visitor registration is free until July 31 (Super Early Bird); from August 1 it moves to Early Bird pricing of KRW 10,000, and to a standard rate of KRW 20,000 thereafter.Supporting programs have also been strengthened. During the event, offerings include hands-on workshops for in-depth, practical learning with leading AI technologies and solutions from Korea and abroad; investment matching connecting startups with investors; and an AI experience zone. Beyond simple viewing, the event is designed to serve as a venue for experiencing technology firsthand and connecting AI companies with industry, investors, and talent.As AI spreads beyond individual services and solutions into every facet of enterprise operations, the event is expected to offer a chance to survey the latest trends at a glance and to gauge the potential for real-world adoption and commercialization.

EDOM Technology(TWSE: 3048), Asia's best solutions provider, celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Since its establishment in 1996, EDOM has worked with global partners to lead innovative technologies and witnessed the growth trajectory of the electronics industry along the way. Faced with the booming trend of diversified AI applications, EDOM will focus on four major innovation areas including power technologies, cybersecurity, optical communications, and biomedicine. Through complete technical support and supply chain services, EDOM will help customers accelerate the implementation of AI, smart networking, and edge computing applications, and jointly promote the development of smart manufacturing, smart medical care, and next-generation digital infrastructure.1996 is a critical year in the history of science and technology. This year, the Internet began to fully enter public life, and the core technology, software, and hardware that laid the foundation for modern digital life were born at this time. The company encountered the Asian financial crisis in 1997 when it was first established, but the rise of the Internet from 1996 to 2000 also brought excellent development opportunities. In its early days, EDOM was optimistic about the emerging 3D graphics chips, modem chips, and radio frequency components. Using this as a starting point, EDOM gradually established a foothold in the electronic circuit market and wrote important milestones along with the changes in the industry.Since its listing in 2002, EDOM has continued to deeply explore the Asia-Pacific market. Following the trend of the Asia-Pacific region becoming an important manufacturing base for the global information industry, EDOM has actively expanded its service base and strengthened its supply chain support capabilities. With the rapid development of the technology industry, EDOM has experienced steady growth: in 2010, driven by the popularity of smartphones and tablets, annual revenue exceeded US$1 billion for the first time; in 2014, it seized the opportunity of the rise of mobile communications, with the Internet of Things and mobile payment, annual revenue exceeded US$2 billion; in 2019, benefiting from the growth in market demand for wearable devices and network communications, annual revenue exceeded the milestone of US$3 billion. Facing a new wave of industrial changes driven by AI, EDOM achieved annual revenue of US$3.7 billion in 2025, ranking among the top ten electronic component distributors in the world, and continues to move towards the revenue target of US$4 billion.Over the past thirty years, EDOM has witnessed the birth of epoch-making applications such as PCs, mobile phones, tablets, electric vehicles, data centers, robots, smart manufacturing and industrial control, and autonomous vehicles. Every new application can be transformed from concept to practice, relying on the efforts of innovators and the support and collaboration of a complete supply chain system. Today, artificial intelligence technology has once again brought new development opportunities. AI has moved from the layout of cloud giants to the enterprise and industrial manufacturing fields, and has penetrated into daily life. Under this trend, EDOM is optimistic about four major areas:Power and cooling technologies: With the rapid growth of AI computing requirements, high-efficiency power management and cooling technology will become an important foundation to support the operation of future electronic products and data centers.Cybersecurity: In the era of digitalization and the Internet of Everything, the importance of information security protection continues to increase, and cybersecurity will become an indispensable part of the stable operation of enterprises.Optical communication: Optical communication and co-packaged optics (CPO) technology are regarded as important keys to breaking through the bottleneck of AI computing transmission. They will not only improve the operational efficiency of data centers, but also accelerate the development of edge computing and high-speed transmission applications.Integration of semiconductor technology and biomedicine: By combining technology and biomedicine, the automation of testing in medical institutions and laboratories can be further promoted, the process of precision medicine can be accelerated, and key breakthroughs can be brought to life sciences.Wayne Tseng, Chairman of EDOM Technology, said: "In the torrent of technological change, our vision of making the world a better place through innovation has remained steadfast. We are deeply honored to witness and participate in the development and evolution of the electronics industry. We sincerely thank the vendors, customers, and partners who have worked side by side with us over the past thirty years, and we look forward to continuing to work together in leading the next generation of technological innovation in the future."With thirty years of evolution, EDOM resonates with the pulse of the global electronics industry. Facing the ever-changing technological wave, we always keep abreast of the latest trends, enrich the electronics industry ecosystem, and open chapters of innovation with global partners.