The automotive IC market is expected to grow 22% this year to a new record high of $28 billion, says IC Insights.

Read full article: Auto chip market to grow 22% this year

Samsung has made an aggressive pitch for new customers for its foundry business which was recently restructured as a separate business unit.

Read full article: Samsung lays out foundry process roadmap

The hardware demonstration platform developed by the EU’s Artemis EMC2 project has been placed in the public domain, says Sundance Multiprocessor Technology.

Read full article: Artemis EMC2 platform in public domain

Human-centric lighting will speed ahead at a grueling 24-hour race in Germany this week, where drivers will don special Osram eyeglasses.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports Linux kernel huge pages for increased database scalability. The use of huge pages results in smaller page tables and less CPU time spent on memory management, increasing the performance of large database instances. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports multiple page sizes for PostgreSQL versions 9.4.11 and later, 9.5.6 and later, and 9.6.2 and later.

The Oracle April 2017 Patch Set Updates (PSU) are now available for Amazon RDS for Oracle. To learn more about the Oracle PSUs supported on Amazon RDS, visit the Amazon RDS patch update documentation .

Amazon WorkDocs now allows you to lock files for editing, and unlock them when you’ve finished making changes. Locking a file ensures that your edits are not overwritten by others, and it eliminates the need to coordinate between users when making changes. This makes it easier to use Amazon WorkDocs for collaborative editing.

Otay Water District in California, US, has won a presidential permission to build a pipeline across the border with Mexico, clearing an important hurdle for Consolidated Water’s proposed Rosarito Beach project.

EPA gets 31 percent cut in proposed plan.

 

A US-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm is working with researchers in Germany to apply conversational and cognitive AI for autonomous systems for self-driving cars.

Read full article: Driverless car study in Germany probes driver reaction times