This new Quick Start, built in collaboration with Teradici, deploys a highly available architecture for cloud video editing on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 30 minutes. Deploying on AWS yields a high-performing environment for transforming videos. Video editing involves large files and requires powerful graphics processing unit (GPU) workstations. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) provides durable, scalable object storage.  

The Brexit hoo-ha is pretty much over bar the shouting – and the shouting last week was for the benefit of the media, Ed confides to his diary. The PM keeps her cards pretty close to her chest but I can tell now, after a couple of years in Cabinet, when she feels she’s got …

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Intel is looking at buying Broadcom which is trying to buy Qualcomm which is buying NXP. The idea is that Intel will bid for Broadcom if Broadcom succeeds in its bid for Qualcomm. Intel is said to be concerned about the competitive threat of a combined Broadcom-Qualcomm-NXP and has retained advisers to work on a …

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After more than four years as CEO of Globalfoundries, Sanjay Jha (pictured)  is resigning and Dr. Thomas Caulfield is taking over. Caulfield joined GF in 2014 after 17 years at IBM where he built and ramped the company’s new 14nm production facility in upstate New York. In 2015, GloFo  acquired IBM’s microelectronics business, bringing a …

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Q4 server revenues grew  25.7% while unit shipments increased 8.8%, says Gartner. In the 2017 full year, revenue grew 10.4% and units grew 31%. The US grew Q4 revenue 27.6% and units 9.7%. Asia/Pac grew revenues 35% and units 21.2%. EMEA grew revenues 19.9% while units fell  7.9%. Japan grew revenue 4.8%, but units  declined …

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QuickLogic has joined the RISC-V Foundation, the open, free instruction set architecture (ISA) consortium. QuickLogic says there is strong synergy between the company’s embedded FPGA (eFPGA) (left) initiative, its membership in the GlobalFoundries FDXcelerator Partner Program for 22FDX SoC design, with faster migration to FD-SOI from bulk nodes such as 40nm and 28nm. eFPGA customers …

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In the war of words between Broadcom and Qualcomm, Broadcom has released an infographic showing Qualcomm’s involvement with Chinese organisations. The infographic is in response to the CFIUS investigation as to whether a successful takeover of Qualcomm by Broadcom would lead to China getting its hands on Qualcomm’s 5G technology. Meanwhile  executive chairman Paul Jacobs, …

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Is this bollox or not? Apparently we have an agency called the Office for National Statistics which says we’re getting happier. The ONS concludes this from answers to questions like ‘do you feel worthwhile?’ and ‘how anxious are you?’ In 2011 people were asked to rate themselves out of 10 for “happiness”, and the average …

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The Guild of Makers is a new craft guild for the UK, aiming to help engineer a multi-million pound ‘Maker’ industry in the UK.

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To increase system-in-package integration density, Analog Devices is stacking die on a passives-on-silicon substrate using technology developed at its Limerick design centre. Dubbed iPassive, “this is a new thing in system-in-package”, ADI field application engineer Thomas Tzscheetzsch told Electronics Weekly at Embedded World in Nuremberg. “The passives are in the silicon, not in poly, real …

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