Semiconductor industry veteran Gregg Lowe will take over at Cree as president and CEO on September 27 following the previously announced intention of Chuck Swoboda to step down.

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.

This Quick Start configures a production-ready Qubole Data Service (QDS) environment that is built on a data lake foundation in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. You can use this Qubole environment to process and analyze your own datasets, and extend it for your specific use cases. The Quick Start also deploys an optional environment with prepopulated data, notebooks, and queries to analyze structured and semi-structured data, in order to gain key business insights into product sales performance. 

You can now view Apache Spark application history and YARN application status in the Amazon EMR console. Application history is updated throughout runtime, and the history is available for up to seven days after the application is complete. Additionally, application history is still viewable after you terminate your Amazon EMR cluster. The console now includes the list of running and completed YARN applications on your Amazon EMR cluster. For each Spark application, you can drill down into granular information and easily view logs in Amazon S3 for each Spark job, task, stage, and executor. 

A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for September 25, 2017.

The order authorizes FEMA and DOD to install and operate temporary water treatment units in areas without operational water systems.

G₂O Water Technologies has signed an agreement to test and evaluate its graphene-based water treatment filtration technology…

HERE, the road-mapping company owned by BMW, Audi and Mercedes, spent $767 million on R&D in 2016, reports Reuters. HERE was bought by the Germans for €2.55 billion in 2015. A 15% stake was sold to Intel earlier this year. Another, smaller, stake was sold to Pioneer and a 10% stake was sold to to …

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The already constrained supply of wafers is about to tighten further, reports Digitimes. 3D NAND, Chinese foundries and China memory fabs are driving 12 inch demand. LCD driver ICs, fingerprint sensors, power management ICs and CMOS image sensors are driving 8-inch demand. Wafer suppliers are in no hurry to increase capacity having been caught out …

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Globalfoundries will roll out a 12nm finfet process at its New York fab next year which is 15% denser with 10% better performance than its 14nm process. “We plan to introduce new client and graphics products based on GF’s 12nm process technology in 2018 as a part of our focus on accelerating our product and …

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