Socionext, the Matsushita-Fujitsu SoC jv, introduces a server processor with 24 ARM Cortex-A53 cores.

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Tesla agrees to acquire Grohmann Engineering, a German company developing technologies for automated manufacturing.

Read full article: Tesla buys German firm in major European move

Zach Shelby, CEO of the micro:bit Foundation has replied on the issue of over-heating chips (and proposed mechanism here) on the BBC’s tiny computer – he says there will be changes in the next revision.   As with any other electronic PCB used outside a lab, micro:bits are susceptible to damage, including ESD. If a …

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As Talleyrand said of the Bourbons “they learned nothing and forgot nothing” so it is with our Euro-elite. Jean-Claude Juncker’s insolent public reaction to the US election shows that he thinks the world is wrong, not him. “We will need to teach the president-elect what Europe is and how it works,” said Junker, “two years …

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The world’s largest moving coil meter – about 17 feet square – will overlook the Tenth Electrical Engineers Exhibition to be held from March 21 to 25 at Earls Court. So, 55 years ago, opened a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 25th 1961 The meter scale will be more than 20 feet long …

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NXP claims to have the world’s smallest leadless logic package for 8 lead logic functions, measuring 0.8mm x 1.35m x 0.35 mm in height. The 8-pin GX 8 (SOT1233) package succeeds the earlier 5- and 6-pin functions in the GX package, making AXP, AUP and LVC functions are now available in a GX package. Functions …

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The LTC 3119 has a 2.5V to 18V input voltage range extending down to 250mV once started.

Read full article: LTC buck-boost converter delivers 5A of continuous current

Weebit Nano, the ReRAM start-up, has transferred its SiOx ReRAM from Rice University’s facilities in Houston, Texas, to Leti’s pre-industrialisation facility in Grenoble, France. Weebit Nano was founded in 2014 to develop a memory technology invented by Professor James Tour of Rice University with the potential to be 1000 times faster, more reliable, more energy-efficient …

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Starting today, you can monitor and automate action on your Amazon EBS snapshots using Amazon CloudWatch Events. CloudWatch Events provide a stream of events describing changes to your AWS resources. EBS CloudWatch Events fire when a snapshot completes or when a snapshot has been shared with you. This allows you to automate and streamline your data backup workflows by eliminating the need to poll the snapshot API to track snapshot status. You can also better adhere to best practices for multi-region disaster recovery by automating the copy of snapshots across regions upon snapshot completion. We will continue to add support for additional snapshot and volume events in future releases.

AWS IoT now supports Simplified Permission Management. This feature allows you to easily manage permission policies for a large number of devices by using variables that reference the Device Registry or X.509 certificate properties. The integration of Device Registry and Certificate properties with device policies offers the following benefits:

1. You can now reference Registry properties in device permission policies.

Referencing device properties defined in the Device Registry allows your policies to reflect any changes made in the Device Registry. For example, referencing the Thing Attribute “building-address” as a variable in the policy, devices will automatically inherit a new set of permissions when they move buildings.

2. You can share a single generic policy for multiple devices.

A generic policy can be shared among the same category of devices instead of creating a unique policy per device. For example, a policy that references the “serial-number” as a variable, can be attached to all the devices of the same model. When devices of the same model connect, policy variables will be automatically substituted by their serial-number.