Thanks to IC Insights for this one – the top ten snalogue companies:

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The SOX is up, the IC sales/orders ratio is trending positive, VLSI Research estimates 4% Q3 growth and now bellwether TSMC is hiking capex from $9/10 billion to $9.5/10.5 billion. What’s more, TSMC says it will maintain its annual capex at over $10 billion for the next three to five years. TSMC CFO Lora Ho …

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Electronic nerve stimulation has had a calming effect on rheumatoid arthritis, beating the best drugs in some patients. The study involved implanting signal generator connected to the vagus nerve. Stimulation was found to reduced the production of proteins called cytokines. “This is a real breakthrough in our ability to help people suffering from inflammatory diseases,” said …

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LED-enabled floor panels recreate the dance floor from Michael Jackson’s 1983 music video “Billie Jean” in the Chicago office of Internet radio provider Pandora.

Cree said it had received a favorable ruling in its SSL-centric intellectual property action against Feit, while the amounts awarded to Boston University in an LED-centric action against Epistar and Everlight may be in question and Dow Corning gets positive ruling on an optical silicone patent.

Use the latest versions of all 16 supported open-source applications with Amazon EMR release 5.0 , including upgrades such as Apache Spark 2.0, Apache Hive 2.1 , Presto 0.150, Apache Zeppelin 0.6.1 (Snapshot) , Pig 0.16 , and Hue 3.10 . Apache Tez , an optimized execution framework, has replaced Apache Hadoop MapReduce as the default execution engine for Hive and Pig, applications now utilize the Java Development Kit 8 (JDK 8) for their runtime environment, and Spark is now compiled with Scala 2.11. All previous sandbox applications on Amazon EMR release 4.x are now GA. Additionally, you can now use enhanced debugging functionality for EMR steps to quickly find errors in logs and highlight possible common root causes.

You can now access information on how long it took to create a datasource, model, evaluations, or batch predictions, in the Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML) console, the API, and in the AWS SDKs. Using this information, you can estimate how long it would take to create similar objects. Knowing the compute time, you can then estimate the cost of datasource creation, model training, or model evaluation based on similar objects created in the past. For regularly retrained models, you can use this information to detect problems in the retraining pipeline before they are deployed to production. This information is found on the summary page in the console for each object, or returned through the API or SDK as an additional value.

A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for August 1, 2016. 

We’re talking Plumduino, the Juno spacecraft, model rocket cars, Star Trek communicators, an Arduino Project Handbook and a Raspberry Pi-based anti-drone system.

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Sony’s semiconductor operation saw sales sink 23% y-o-y to $1.4 billion in the quarter to the end of June affected by earthquakes and lack of demand. The operation made an operating loss of $423 million. Earthquakes cost Sony $66 million last year of which about $12 million is recoverable on insurance. PS4 sales had an …

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