X-FAB Silicon Foundries today announced the first winners of its annual First-Time-Right Award and semi-annual X-Cite Award. iC-Haus GmbH and New Japan Radio each won the First-Time-Right award for mastering significant implementation challenges in developing analogue and mixed-signal ICs that fulfill the target specification at first design iteration. Fabless semiconductor company MinDCet NV won the …
Raspberry Pi becomes vehicle ECU
Electric two-seat pedal cars in Germany are getting an on-board computer thanks to masters student Adrien Hoffet and a Raspberry Pi . The Twike, manufactured by Fine Mobile in Germany, is half-bike and half-electric car for one or two people: it has a 3kW motor (8kW peak), pedals, a lightweight frame, and weather-proof body. Maximum speed …
Fujitsu adds sub-threshold ARM microcontroller line
Fujitsu Electronics Europe will now be selling low power microcontrollers from the US-based manufacturer Ambiq Micro. This will see the supplier becoming the exclusive distributor of Ambiq Micro products, which are used in wearables, wireless sensors and IoT applications, in Europe. Ambiq Micro has topped EEMBC’s ultra-low power benchmark for microcontrollers, doubling the previous highest score …
Stadium builds global power supply business
Stadium has created an enlarged power supply business by combining its Stadium Power and Stontronics brands. Called Stadium Stontronics, the business which supplies standard and custom power supplies up to 10kW, will operate from Reading in the UK and Hong Kong. It will also have regional design centres in Norwich and Shanghai. The power supply business …
Top Ten Semi Capex Spenders In 2016
Thanks to IC Insights for this – the top ten capex spenders this year:
Eaton partners with NuLEDs on PoE technology for connected SSL
Eaton has announced a joint offer of its LED luminaires combined with gateway modules, sensors, and control panels from NuLEDs that can together yield a Power over Ethernet (PoE) connected SSL system.
Now Access CloudWatch Metrics directly from the Amazon ML Console
Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML) now publishes your CloudWatch metrics in the Amazon ML console, making it even easier to use and access these graphs. Currently, Amazon ML publishes metrics to CloudWatch, enabling you to monitor the performance of your models in production. As part of the ML model report, you can view recent CloudWatch metrics related to the model. Now with a single click from the Amazon ML console, you can directly to go the view of metrics for that model in CloudWatch to get further detail.
AWS IoT announces support for Thing Types in the Thing Registry
AWS IoT now supports Thing Types in the Thing Registry. Thing Types allow you to effectively manage your catalogue of devices by defining common characteristics for devices that belong to the same device category. In addition, a Thing associated with a Thing Type can now have up to 50 attributes including 3 searchable attributes.
To learn more about the Thing Registry and Thing Types visit the AWS IoT site or AWS developer documentation .
Announcing the availability of Snowball in EU (Frankfurt) region
We are pleased to announce the expansion of the Snowball service to EU (Frankfurt) region. With this launch, AWS Import/Export Snowball is now available in the eight regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (India), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS GovCloud (US).
AWS Support announces update to Developer Support plan
A new pricing model for our Developer Support plan has been launched, reducing the entry cost from $49 per month to $29 per month, while providing the same level of customer service and support. As of July 26th, 2016 all new AWS accounts subscribing to Developer Support will receive the new pricing, set at the greater of $29 or 3% of monthly AWS spend.