Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. Today, we are releasing a new version (2.0.5) of the JDBC driver that can deliver up to 2x better performance when fetching results less than 10,000 rows, and approximately 5-6x better performance when fetching results larger than 10,000 rows, compared to the old driver. The feature is enabled by default.

TI’s HDC2080 humidity and temperature digital sensor is a capacitive-based device

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Q2 semiconductor sales were up 6% q-o-q and 20.5% y-o-y at $117.9 billion, says the SIA. June sales increased 1.5% on the month and 20.5% from June 2017 to $39.3 billion. “Halfway through 2018, the global semiconductor industry continues to post impressive sales totals, notching its highest-ever quarterly sales in Q2 and record monthly sales …

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Shipments of flexible AMOLED panels are expected to account for more than 50% of total AMOLED panel shipments by 2020. Shipments of flexible AMOLED panels are expected to reach 335.7 million units by 2020, topping those of rigid AMOLED panels at 315.9 million units. Flexible AMOLED panels are predicted to make up 52% of  total …

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After nine quarters of consecutive growth the DRAM price is finally on the way down, reports DRAMeXchange. Q4 contract  ASPs are expected to fall 1-3% due, says DRAMeXchange, to “increasing supply yet fairly limited growth in demand.”  Contract prices for PC DRAM and server DRAM memory have risen 1-2% sequentially in Q3, while mobile DRAM and …

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An impressively thin dual 10A dc-dc converter, that can also be used as a single 20A converter

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Phoenix Contact has extended its range of PCB connectors, with a pitch of 2.54 mm. The single and double-row MCC 0,5 and DMCC 0,5 connectors are suitable for conductor cross sections from 0.14 mm² to 0.75 mm².  The 2-pos. to 16-pos. connectors are designed for currents up to 6A and voltages up to 160V.  Corresponding crimp contacts with …

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      Samsung extended its lead over Intel to 22% in H1, reports IC Insights. All but four of the top 15 companies had double-digit year-over-year growth in 1H18. Moreover, seven companies had ≥20% growth, including the five big memory suppliers (Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron, Toshiba/Toshiba Memory, and Western Digital/SanDisk) as well as Nvidia …

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Former boss Ulrich Schumacher is alleging unfair dismissal in two legal actions against his former employer, Zumtobel. The gloves are off.

AWS Device Farm now

let’s
you customize your test execution environment to match your specific needs. You can now specify the dependencies your project needs and the exact commands to be run during test execution, to ensure your tests run precisely like they do in your local environment. Device Farm is also introducing live log and video streaming to provide you instant feedback on your tests.