Amazon Elasticsearch Service now lets you easily upgrade your Elasticsearch clusters to newer versions without any downtime, using in-place version upgrades. With this new feature, you no longer need to go through the hassle of taking a manual snapshot, restoring it to a new cluster running the newer version of Elasticsearch, and updating all of your endpoint references. Instead, you can easily trigger the in-place version upgrade and Amazon Elasticsearch Service takes care of all the necessary steps in the background, ensuring that your cluster continues to operate while the upgrade is in process. 

Today, AWS AppSync launched a new quick-start that walks you through connecting AppSync to your Amazon Aurora database to create a new blog application. AWS AppSync is a serverless backend service for web and mobile applications that supports real-time data synchronization and offline capabilities. AppSync supports multiple data storage options, including Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElasticSearch Service, AWS Lambda, and HTTP data sources.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports versions 5.6 and 6.3 for both open-source Elasticsearch and Kibana. Elasticsearch 5.6 includes a number of bug fixes and optimizations to improve search performance. Elasticsearch 6.3 offers autocomplete for Kibana queries and improvements to aggregation and ranking APIs. 

Researchers at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville announce that they have made the first-ever 6D measurement of an accelerator beam. Taking measurements in 6D includes the same dimensions of a 3D measurement, plus additional data points for the velocity in each direction along the x, yand z axes.  Until now, scientists stitched together three 2D …

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Samsung is reported by the Korean newspaper Electronics Times to be considering ending production of mobile phones at one of its two China plants. Samsung’s market share in China has gone from 20% to 1% in five years as local brands Huawei, Oppo and Vivo have taken over the market. The plant where phone production …

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Arm’s Q2 EBIT  fell 99% y-o-y from £82 million in Q2 2017 to £1 million in Q2 2018. Revenue was down from £329 million in Q2 2017 and from £330 million in Q1 2018 to £281 million in Q2 2018.  Licensing revenue fell 43% y-o-y from £111 million to £64 million. Royalty revenues and software/services …

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The Q2 DRAM market grew 11.3% q-o-q, reports DRAMeXchange. Prices of most DRAM types rose 3% in Q2 and prices of graphics DRAM rose 15% pushed by crypto demand. DRAMeXchange reckons prices have peaked because new capacity is coming on-stream in H2. The Koreans had 73.5% of the market with Micron holding 21.6%. China’s monopoly …

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A new form of electronics manufacturing which embeds silicon nanowires into flexible surfaces could lead to radical new forms of bendable electronics,  say engineers from the University of Glasgow who have been able to affordably ‘print’ high-mobility semiconductor nanowires onto flexible surfaces to develop high-performance ultra-thin electronic layers. Those surfaces, which can be bent, flexed and twisted, …

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Infineon  and  China e-commerce company Jingdong (JD) have signed a strategic partnership agreement aimed at creating an efficient and secured smart IoT ecosystem. The two companies will combine Infineon’s  expertise in semiconductors with the local market insight and network of JD, China´s largest online retailer. Infineon will provide the jv with underlying technology such as IoT …

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The Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult has received the £51m money ear-marked for the creation of its headquarters, at a location in South East Wales that its management will not reveal. It is thought that an existing building will be leased, and that the secrecy is for commercial reasons. Currently, Catapult staff are based in Cardiff. These …

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