Thanks to Mike Bryant for noticing this and passing it on. Those crafty Chinese seem to have been up to a bit of skulduggery with this little beauty – an STM32-bit MCU incorporating an ARM Cortex core. Nothing on the package crediting ST or ARM! Seems that someone has half-inched a mask-set. Below is the full description on …

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Nickel can be as strong as titanium and the density of water, according to a paper in Nature Scientific Reports. ‘High strength metallic wood from nanostructured nickel inverse opal materials‘ describes a material whose strength comes from nickel struts (as narrow as 17nm) whose local yield strength is 8GPa – 4x that of bulk nickel. According to …

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58 years ago, in its issue of March 22nd 1961, Electronics Weekly carried this ad from Hughes:  

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Apple’s 20% drop in iPhone unit sales and 27.7% y-o-y drop in iPhone revenues in China in Q4 were due to the high unit price, says IDC. The cheapest of last year’s iPhones was $749 and the most expensive was $1,449. “In addition to the regular performance upgrades in 2018, there is no major innovation …

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AIStorm of San Jose, which uses analogue processing instead of GPUs for machine learning at the edge, has closed a $13.2 million in Series A financing from Egis Technology, TowerJazz, Meyer Corporation and Linear Dimensions Semiconductor. “This investment will help us accelerate our engineering & go-to-market efforts to bring a new type of machine learning to the …

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The US Department of Energy is moving to change the definitions of general service lamps as urged by SSL manufacturers and NEMA, and in doing so is enabling the manufacturers to continue making some specialty lamps based on legacy sources while erasing projected energy savings expected through a transition to LEDs.

Despite a lot of publicity last year, Bluetooth Mesh has been slow to come to market, but Strategies in Light will see broader emergence of the technology starting with McWong.

The AWS Managed Service Program (MSP) Program highlights APN Consulting Partners who are skilled at cloud infrastructure, application migration, and deliver value to customers by offering proactive monitoring, automation, and management of their customer’s environment.

Today, the AWS MSP Program launched the MSP Validation Checklist v4.0. This new checklist includes new requirements and performance-based renewal in order to enhance the customer and partner experience.

Learn more about these requirements on the APN Blog.
 

This Quick Start automatically deploys IBM Cloud Private into a new virtual private cloud (VPC) on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. A regular deployment takes about 60 minutes, and a high availability (HA) deployment takes about 75 minutes to complete. The Quick Start includes AWS CloudFormation templates and a deployment guide.

Falling out with President Trump has downside consequences. ZTE was deprived of US components and nearly bankrupted, Huawei is seeing its global expansion plans trashed, Fujian Jin Hua saw its $10 billion DRAM project halted, loads of Chinese companies’ attempted takeover of US companies have been thwarted by the White House and China goods may …

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