Gordon Moore was presented with Imec’s lifetime achievement award at ITF2016 in Brussels this morning. Imec CEO Luc van den Hove went over to Hawaii to talk to Moore and extracts of their conversation were shown to ITF delegates. Modest as always, Moore said Moore’s Law had little effect on the industry. He was observing …
Amazon Elastic Transcoder Now Supports MPEG-DASH
You can now use Amazon Elastic Transcoder to create MPEG-DASH streams. MPEG-DASH is a standard for HTTP based adaptive bitrate streaming of video. With Elastic Transcoder support for MPEG-DASH, you can now reach a wide range of DASH-compatible devices (from desktop to mobile and OTT) with fewer output renditions created using the same easy workflows that Elastic Transcoder supports for HLS and Smooth Streaming. This enables you to simplify your video processing workflows and helps improve cost efficiency.
EC2 now supports the ability to capture screenshots of an instance console
Instance Console Screenshot provides an on-demand screenshot of the instance console, conveying valuable debug information. This capability is particularly useful when diagnosing instances that have become unreachable via RDP (Windows) or SSH (Linux) due to in-progress software updates, VM Import issues, or other blocking system events. Screenshots can be viewed in the AWS console or accessed via the AWS API or CLI, with both Linux and Windows instances supported .
Amazon Redshift UNION ALL queries and VACUUM commands now run up to 10x faster
UNION ALL performance improvement: Business analytics often involves time-series data, which is data generated or aggregated daily, weekly, monthly or at other intervals. By storing time-series data in separate tables —one table for each time interval—and using a UNION ALL view over those tables, you can avoid potentially costly table updates. Amazon Redshift now runs UNION ALL queries up to 10 times faster if they involve joins, and up to 2 times faster if they don’t involve any joins. This performance improvement is automatic and requires no action on your part and is available in version 1.0.1057 and above. For more information about UNION ALL views and time-series tables, see Using Time-Series Tables in the Amazon Redshift Database Developer Guide.
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The best description of T.J Rodgers, the founding CEO of Cypress, is that he’s “an engineer’s engineer’. An engineer’s curiosity took him into areas like optical networking and solar power, buying optical specialist HiBand Semiconductor in 2001 and investing $8 million in Sun Power in 2002. In 2005 Sun Power had an IPO in which …
GloFo enhances 130nm SiGe RF process
GloFo has enhanced its 130nm RF SiGe process to deliver 5G performance. The technology is optimized for customers who need improved performance solutions for automotive radar, satellite communications, 5G millimeter-wave base stations and other wireless and wireline communication network applications. GLoFo’s SiGe 8XP technology is the latest extension to the company’s 130nm high-performance SiGe family …
ARM, AMD, Huawei, IBM, Qualcomm, Mellanox and Xilinx team up on datacentre
ARM, AMD, Huawei, IBM, Qualcomm, Mellanox and Xilinx have joined forces to bring a high-performance open acceleration framework to data centers. The companies are collaborating on the specification for the new Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators (CCIX). For the first time in the industry, a single interconnect technology specification will ensure that processors using different …
ARM, AMD, Huawei, IBM, Qualcomm, Mellanox and Xilinx team up on datacentre
Socionext evaluation kit for 360deg WAV system
Socionext, the Panasonic-Fujitsu SoC jv, has introduced an evaluation package for its 360° Wrap-Around View (WAV) system. The package combines the hardware, software and support services necessary for initial evaluation and development of the WAV system. Customers lacking resources to evaluate the system themselves can now develop their own customized systems with this new solution. …
LoRa eval kit aimed at metro area networks
Microchip has released LoRa wireless evaluation kits, claiming them to be the first on the market. They provide all the components needed to create a low-power 10 mile range network for North America (915MHz, kit DV164140-2) or for Europe (868MHz DV164140-1). Each kit includes two wireless sensors (‘motes’) based on Microchip’s RN2483 or RN2903 LoRa …
Sounds Like Plessey
To specify Plessey loudspeakers is to ensure outstanding reliability. So, 55 years ago, ran an ad in Electronics Weekly’s edition of April 26th 1961. The ad continued: Careful design, up-to- date manufacturing methods and stringent tests together provide a service unsurpassed in the industry. Outstanding features of the latest types include a choice of motor …