The Prime Minister is to meet leading digital entrepreneurs and innovators as she announced a series of measures to support the UK’s tech sector. In the run up to the Budget, the Prime Minister and Chancellor will co-host a tech roundtable and reception at Downing Street, and reaffirm the Government’s enduring commitment to this vital industry. …

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Thanks to Electronics Design for this one – the top ten fabless companies in China: Revenues $bn HiSilicon – 3.87 Tsinghua Unigroup – 1.86 Omnivision – 1.39 ZTE Microelectronics – 0.892 CEC Huada Semiconductor – 0.505 Nari Smart Chip – 0.478 Shenzen FocalTech – 0.446.28 Silan Microelectronics – 0.342 Beijing ISSI – 0.342 Datang Semiconductor …

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In Part 1 of a planned series, the US Department of Energy has evaluated how well application programming interfaces can deliver a homogeneous experience when dealing with multiple connected SSL systems from different vendors.

Today, AWS announced the ability to migrate from a Classic Load Balancer to an Application Load Balancer or a Network Load Balancer in one step using a console-based migration wizard. The migration wizard makes it very easy to create an Application Load Balancer or a Network Load Balancer with a configuration that is equivalent to your Classic Load Balancer. It removes need for step-by-step configuration and enables you to quickly test your application with a new type of load balancer. It also provides a single-screen view of the new configuration with flexibility to modify it before creating the new load balancer. After the migration, you can configure the advanced features offered by the new load balancer. You can access the migration wizard from the Migration tab in the console for a Classic Load Balancer. 

An outcome document released from the SIWW Spotlight 2017 event has said that utilities need to have a “laser focus” to reduce water system losses…

NXP launches the i.MX RT series processors which aim to bridge the gap between high performance and integration while minimizing costs.

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In a new report,  called From Ostrich to Magpie, the CBI argues that by encouraging more businesses to behave like ‘magpies’ – picking the best tried and tested technologies available – rather than like ‘ostriches’, who are more stuck in their ways, then the UK could reduce inequality between firms’ productivity and people’s pay. This …

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This year is a throw-back to those wonderful chip boom years when everypne had money pouring out of their ears, but what about next year? SEMI has published this chart showing the top forecasters’ predictions: The good news is that the most optimistic forcaster, Future Horizons, was the one who was the first to call …

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Graphcore, the UK GPU start-up, has raised $50 million in a funding round led by Sequoia.

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Softbank and Dragoneer Investment Group are to invest $1 billion in Uber at a $70 billion valuation on condition that it has a tender offer of $9 billion accepted at a lower valuation which would bring the Softbank/Dragoneer stake to around 14% of Uber. The tender offer will be made to all Uber shareholders on …

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