Samsung has agreed a budget of $2.3 billion for the first stage of a second fab at Xi’an, in China.

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Has Toshiba been playing a crafty game all along? The consensus view is that Toshiba has made a right balls up of its sale of its chip business – dithering, procrastinating and exasperating all the participants. But could it have played a clever game – keeping its creditors and bankers at bay with the promise …

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A second handset manufacturer has stopped making royalty payments to Qualcomm following the example set by Apple. Qualcomm’s lawyer told the court in the Apple dispute: “One of the largest handset manufacturers in the world has now told us that they have been watching the Apple litigation and they are no longer paying us.” According …

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Over half of the expected $80.9 billion 2017 capex spending will be for foundries (28%) and upgrades for NAND flash memory (24%), says IC Insights.   With a projected 53% increase in 2017, and DRAM prices surging since Q3 2016, the DRAM/SRAM segment is expected to display the largest percentage growth in capital expenditures of the …

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AWS has released a major update to the NGINX Plus Quick Start reference deployment that includes enhanced Auto Scaling features. 

We’re excited to announce new features to the growing portfolio of Amazon S3 Storage Management capabilities to help you better analyze and manage your storage. You can now utilize the following new features in AWS GovCloud (US): 

You can now provide synonyms for slot values in Amazon Lex. With the synonym functionality, you can specify multiple synonyms for a slot value in your chatbot. The synonyms specified are resolved to the corresponding slot values. For example, if the slot value is “comedy”, with “funny” and “humorous” specified as synonyms, then user input of “funny” will now be resolved to “comedy”. You can optimize your business logic to implement code for just the slot value instead of entire set of synonyms. In addition, the chatbot automatically resolves minor variants of the slot value to the original value without the user having to explicitly specify the synonym. For example, if “pineapple” is one of the slot values and the user value is “pineapples” then slot is resolved to the value “pineapple”.  

Amazon EC2 now allows customers to add a short description to individual security group rules. Using this functionality, customers can add details like when and why a certain security group rule was created or updated. This functionality simplifies management of security groups as customers no longer need to track this information using spreadsheets or documents.

AWS Direct Connect has now landed in Boston, MA at Markley, One Summer Data Center supporting the US East (N. Virginia) AWS Region. Customers in Boston can now establish a dedicated network connection from their premise to AWS.

This new Quick Start automatically deploys a highly available, production-ready IBM MQ server on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 30 minutes, into a configuration of your choice.