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Kyocera sues Preh for haptic feedback patent infringement

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Kyocera is suing German automotive component supplier Preh for infringement of its haptic feedback patents. The lawsuit, in a Dusseldorf court, says that Kyocera has been creating haptic technologies through its own R&D efforts since 2008. Kyocera says that, utilising ergonomics and virtual reality technology that Kyocera has developed over the years as well as its …

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February semi sales up 21% y-o-y

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February’s semiconductor sales were 21% up on the $30.47 billion sales of February 2017 at $36.8 billion, but 2.2% down on January’s $37.6 billion, according to the SIA. “The global semiconductor market continued to demonstrate substantial and consistent growth in February, notching its 19th consecutive month of year-to-year sales increases and growing by double-digit percentages …

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KEMET expands ceramic capacitor series

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KEMET  has expanded its ESD rated ceramic capacitor series into a complete product portfolio. Automotive and commercial grades are now available in EIA 0402, 0603, 0805 and 1206 case sizes with voltage ratings of 16 to 250 VDC. These devices provide miniaturization and enhanced flexibility to optimize ESD suppression, RF filtering, blocking, sensing, and circuit …

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When Andy Grove first met Steve Jobs

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Andy Grove was offered a seat on the Apple board in the early days. In Charlie Sporck’s book SPINOFF Grove recalls being given “one of those pink message slips from my secretary. My secretary gives it to me with a big grin It says Mike Markkula, Apple Computer, please call him back.” “I said, “Apple …

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Amazon QuickSight Adds New Data Connectors to Popular Business Apps and JSON

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Now you can use QuickSight to directly connect to, analyze and report on data from popular business applications such JIRA, GitHub, ServiceNow, Adobe Analytics, and Twitter. For example, engineering teams using JIRA to track issues such as tasks and bugs can now use QuickSight to report on developer efficiency and bug burndown. Marketing organizations can integrate QuickSight with Adobe Analytics to build consolidated dashboards on their online and web marketing data. Brands can plug in to Twitter to analyze and understand their customers’ sentiment. These connectors make it easy for non-technical business users to easily connect to the 3rd party application sources using OAuth, easily ingest and report on the data with a few simple clicks and eliminates the need to export the data to an intermediate store.

AWS Batch Adds Support for Automatic Termination with Job Execution Timeout

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AWS Batch now supports the ability to automatically terminate your jobs at execution level. With job execution timeout, you can set a timeout duration per retry attempt in your job definition or provide it as an override when you submit the job, and AWS Batch will terminate your job once the job has been running for the specified duration. Note that the time out duration must be at least 60 seconds and the timer will start when the job reaches a running state. 

Cisco backs Nantero

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Cisco has invested in Nantero the CNT memory company. The investment brings to eight the number of strategic partners backing Nantero. The others are: Schlumberger, Dell, Kingston Technology, CFT Capital and three undisclosed. The amount of capital raised by Nantero now tops $120 million. “Having global leaders such as Cisco Investments and Dell Technologies Capital invest …

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