A new Arduino with integrated Wi-Fi and security features, Plessey micro-LEDs for AR glasses, Apple power management chips, a 6mm nuclear battery and DRAM makers under anti-trust investigation all figure prominently this week…

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George Gilder’s book Microcosm quotes Gordon Moore’s Parable of the Microchip which runs: “We needed a substrate for our chip. So we looked at the substrate of the earth itself. It was mostly sand. So we used that.” “We needed a metal conductor for the wires and switches on the chip. We looked at all …

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Infineon is seeing strong long-term growth drivers in its target markets – automotive, industrial, IoT and security applications – where business momentum is gathering pace and is therefore realigning its target operating model, which sets target values for revenue growth, segment result margin and the investment-to-sales ratio over the cycle. “A broad range of structural …

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At Google I/O the first beta version was released, and now Android P Beta 2 is being released (available if you have a Pixel device).

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Figures published by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) show 2016 exports of goods by the UK digital sector were  up 7.3% y-o-y and worth more than £15 billion “These new statistics show our tech sector is in demand from businesses and consumers around the globe, with exports up by a fifth,” …

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Adding analogue processing to digital hardware is the key to adaptability and maximum battery life in the nano-scale age, according to the University of Southampton, which is advocating memristors and charge-based processing as the way to do it. Memristors are non-volatile electrically-adjustable resistors. Made from metal oxides, they scale well and are proposed as memory …

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The latest powerline-communication-based lighting deployment by enModus looks like a small one but shows that wireless is not the only way to avoid expensive retrofit costs.

Today, AWS Shield Advanced announced a new onboarding wizard to help you set up your resources for protection and enable faster DDoS incident response by providing emergency contacts and giving the AWS DDoS Response Team (DRT) IAM permissions.

Oracle Patch Set Updates contain critical security updates and other important updates. The April 2018 PSUs are now available for Amazon RDS for Oracle. To learn more about the Oracle PSUs supported on Amazon RDS, visit the Amazon RDS patch update documentation . 

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