Memec founded Impact as a means to continue serving advanced-technology semiconductor suppliers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) without compromising The Memec Group\'s limited line card philosophy. As with sister companies Insight and Unique, Impact focuses on fewer supplier partners, enabling them to provide their OEM customer base with vast product knowledge and design expertise. With a team of highly trained field applications engineers, Impact specializes in proprietary technologies and system-level solutions in markets such as communications; EDP/multimedia; industrial control; instrumentation; contract manufacturing and wireless. While Impact operates independently from Insight and Unique throughout most of the world, in the Americas, Unique and Impact have merged to form Unique/Impact, a newly created single entity with a broader, enhanced product portfolio.