Renesas Electronics has agreed a deal to acquire Intersil for around $3.2bn.

Read full article: Renesas agrees $3.2bn buyout of Intersil

Digital multimeters (DMM) are the most commonplace piece of test equipment on the workbench or in the maintenance bag. But for how much longer will it be the engineers go-to test tool?

Read full article: The changing world of multimeters

In the latest SSL business roundup, Seoul Semiconductor sues retailer Kmart while Eaton and Cimcon partner, Cree clarifies IP stance relative to Feit, and UL adds ZigBee testing.

We are excited to announce a new edge location in Atlanta, Georgia for Amazon CloudFront. This is the second edge location for Atlanta and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 60. 

Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports container logging to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. You can use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor and troubleshoot your applications that run in containers. You can send each container’s log output to CloudWatch Logs and monitor these logs in near real-time. 

A new potable water supply system has been inaugurated for nearly 14,000 people in Haiti as part of a United Nations mission…

Saudi Arabia continues to lead the race for installed desalination capacity with a new report suggesting it now contributes 18% globally…

I love Brexit, Ed confides to his diary, because no one knows what it is, which means it can be anything. As Baron Shoreditch Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Innovation, people seem to think I have inside knowledge about what Brexit is. In other words I can make it up as …

Read full article: Ed Digs Brexit

View National Instrument’s oscilloscope range and see how they can help you

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A UK company specialising in enabling the manufacture of synthetic diamond-based electronics receives £750K of new funding.

Read full article: Evince polishes funding for diamond-based electronics