You can now provision aliases in AWS Key Management Service (KMS). An alias creates a display name for a customer master key. Visit here to learn more.

Amazon RDS SQL Server now supports Local Time Zones. You can now set the time zone for your Amazon RDS for SQL Server instances to the local time zone for your application.  

We are excited to announce a new edge location in Mumbai, India (Asia-Pacific) for Amazon CloudFront. This is the second edge location for Mumbai and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 61.

Globalfoundries is running 7nm finfet test chips incorporating customers’ IP at its Fab 8 in Saratoga County, New York. GloFo is skipping 10nm and going straight from 16/14nm to 7nm. The 7nm technology is expected to be ready for customer product design starts in the second half of 2017, with ramp to risk production in …

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Globalfoundries intends to offer embedded MRAM on its 22nm FD-SOI (FDX) process for customer prototyping and to have it in volume production in SoCs in 2018. GloFo says that eMRAM is scalable beyond 22nm and it intends to make it available on both its Finfet and FD-SOI processes. GloFo says that can its 22FDX eMRAM …

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The peace of Europe has held for 71 years and NATO has to be thanked for that. Would a European army not subject to democratic control be a better guarantor of peace? This is the proposition of Jean-Claude Juncker who may well be thinking, like Mao, that “political power grows out of the barrel of …

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SEMI’s August book-to-bill ratio was 1.03. August bookings were $1.75 billion – down 2.3% on July’s $1.80 billion, and is 5% higher than the August 2015 level of $1.67 billion. August billings Were $1.71 billion – the same as July’s and 8.4% higher than the August 2015 level of $1.58 billion. “The book-to-bill ratio has …

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Imec researcher Kris Myny has been awarded a €1.5 million ERC Starting Grant to engineer a breakthrough in thin-film transistor technology for creating large-area, flexible circuits. Specifically, he wants to introduce design innovations of unipolar n-type transistor circuits based on amorphous Indium-Gallium-Zinc-Oxide (a-IGZO) as semiconductor. These are currently acknowledged as the most promising transistors for …

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Asia-Pac is expected to account for 61% of the $282 billion IC market this year, says IC Insights. Last year the Asia-Pac share was 60.5% in 2014 it was 58.4%!and in 2013 it was 57.7%. In automotive ICs, IC Insights expects Asia-Pac to overtake Europe for the first time as China’s car output ramps up. …

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Thanks to Trusted Reviews for this one. If LG’s FH4A8FDH2N washer/dryer has not got enough built in cleaning programmes, you can download more. Amazing. It looks like the downloadable programmes are via NFC and a phone. Says LG: Tag On lets users download new wash programs to a smartphone, such as Wool, Baby Care or Cold …

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