You can now monitor and automatically react to changes in your AWS CodeDeploy deployments using Amazon CloudWatch Events. This lets you detect changes in the state of an Amazon EC2 instance or deployment managed by CodeDeploy, and then invoke an action based on rules that you set. This is useful for building workflows and processes that are triggered by changes in your deployments.
Will O’ The Wisp Memory
When Intel stole a march on flash-inventor Toshiba and marketed the first flash chip in 1988, everyone would have been surprised if they’d known it would be another 18 years and counting before anyone came up with a flash replacement technology. In the last week we’ve had two which are intriguing – the Israeli firm …
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Leti lines up with Weebit Nano for ReRAM development
Leti and Israeli ReRAM start-up Weebit Nano are to collaborate to develop ReRAM memory technology based on silicon oxide (SiOx).
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Intel sells 51% of McAfee
Intel has done a deal with the private equity fund Texas Pacific Group to spin off its security group which includes McAfee bought by Intel in 2010 for $7.7 billion. Under the deal a jv is formed in which Intel owns 49% of the security group and TPG has 51%. TPG will pay Intel $3.1 …
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Fab spending to grow this year and next, says SEMI
SEMI says fab equipment spending will grow 4.1% year-on-year in 2016 and 10.6% in 2017.
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Self-driving truck goes mining
Volvo is claiming a first for a self-driving truck: operation in a mine. Operating underground in the Kristineberg zinc, copper, lead, gold and silver mine in northern Sweden, the truck will drive back and forth from the surface to 1,320 metres underground over 7km of twisting tunnels. “This is the world’s first fully self-driving truck …
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Gadget Watch: LG V20 heralds Android Nougat
LG’s new flagship smartphone, the V20, is the first phone to feature the new Android system preloaded, version 7.0 codenamed Nougat.
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GloFo launches 12nm FD-SOI at Dresden
Globalfoundries launches its 12nm FD-SOI semiconductor technology, called 12FDX, offering the industry’s first multi-node FD-SOI roadmap.
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Fable: The PhD Who Wanted To Sell Things
Back in 1962, when Fairchild was five years old, a newly minted PhD joined the company. He found it “a marvellous place to go to work for a scientist type – they had all this fancy latest equipment and so on, and they had a policy then that new PhDs could work on any project …
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Seoul Semiconductor expands CSP LED offering and moves to volume production
The WICOP series of CSP LEDs are among the first CSPs in the industry to be produced in high volume for general lighting applications and deliver efficacy of 210 lm/W.