AWS expands Snowball and Snowball Edge services to AWS Singapore (SIN) region. 

AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate now supports Chef Automate version 1.8.3, which includes Chef’s infrastructure compliance scanner. 

Amazon Connect is now compliant with SOC (System & Organization Control) measures. SOC Reports are independent third-party examination reports that demonstrate how AWS achieves key compliance controls and objectives. AWS maintains SOC compliance through extensive third-party audits of AWS controls. These audits ensure that the appropriate safeguards and procedures are in place to protect against security risks that may affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of customer and company data. The results of these third-party audits are made available on the AWS SOC Compliance site, where auditors can view the published reports to get more information about the controls established to support AWS operations and compliance.  

Soccer team Tottenham Hotspur decides on digital floodlights after all, but won’t yet reveal the luminaire vendor for the mega-stadium that will also host NFL games and concerts.

It is being said that Intel will provide 64-layer and 96-layer NAND to Tsinghua Unigroup. Tsinghua owns Yangtze River Memory Corp which is readying a massive fab at Wuhan in China to make 3D-NAND. Intel and Micron have agreed to end their joint 3D-NAND joint development programme when the 96-layer product is completed. Yangtze River …

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SAIC Motor Corporation and Infineon havve establishment a joint venture to manufacture power modules for the electric vehicle market in China. SAIC Motor holds a stake of 51% of the JV and Infineon 49%. The partners have received all approvals by public authorities. The JV is named SIAPM (SAIC Infineon Automotive Power Modules (Shanghai) Co, Ltd.). …

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Operating at up to 1 MHz, TI has a new chipset that combines the UCC28780 active clamp flyback controller and the UCC24612 synchronous rectifier controller to help cut the size of power supplies in AC/DC adapters and USB Power Delivery chargers in half. For battery-powered electronics that need maximum charging efficiency in a small solution …

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At Embedded World 2018, we caught up with Larissa Schlafli of Harwin

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At Embedded World 2018, we caught up with Sebastian Bauer of Broadcom

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Microchip is to buy Microsemi for $8.35 billion. Microsemi, which has been on an acquisition spree of its own, has been looking for a buyer for some time. The price is a out 7% more than the Microsemi market cap before the deal was announced. For Microchip the attraction is Microsemi’s military and aerospace customer …

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