Imagination Technologies’ share price staged a mini recovery on Tuesday as speculation began to swirl about the possibility of the group being sold.

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One wonders how far Apple’s verticalisation will go in a week when it’s kicked its GPU supplier into touch and, allegedly, made a bid for Toshiba’s semiconductor business. Adding GPUs to its in-house CPU development seems a reasonable thing to do if Apple believes it can do a better design job than Imagination. Furthermore Imagination, …

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An IoT-based system will soon be able to configure your room with your preferred lighting and temperature conditions, writes Valerio Panzica La Manna The right service for the right user in the right place’, that’s what proximity services are all about. In the future we will be surrounded by smart appliances which we can operate …

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When should static analysis be applied?” The answer to this question is fairly straightforward: “whenever code is being developed.” This however, is a simplification, writes Bill Graham The longer answer is “part of a structured and secure development process.”  Static analysis is an important part of a modern software development tool suite which when applied …

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February chip sales were up 16.5% y-o-y at $30.4 billion for February 2017,compared to the February 2016 total of $26.1 billion, says the SIA. February was the  market’s largest y-o-y growth since October 2010. “The global semiconductor industry has posted strong sales early in 2017, with memory products like DRAM and NAND flash leading the …

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Kyocera has developed a 6.2-inch LCD with a wide-viewing capability for industrial devices. The LCD has a 16:6 aspect ratio and it can be mounted either horizontally or vertically and still provide a wide viewing angle and high contrast ratio. With the part number TCG062HVLQAVNN-GN20, the display features 640 x 240 resolution, with outline dimensions …

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I came across this excellent detailed video, describing how Mullard thermionic valves were made. Well worth a look – for example, at Mullard tungsten ore was bought in and converted to metal and then to wire on-site.

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The Swedish lighting firm already uses Organic’s sensors in its luminaires, and is now picking up intellectual property and key assets from the financially wounded Australian pioneer.

Amazon Aurora can now execute one of the most common Data Definition Language (DDL) operations – an ALTER command to add a nullable column at the end of a table – nearly instantaneously. This capability, called fast DDL, is available in lab mode. Fast DDL doesn’t require a table copy and does not materially impact other DML statements. Since it doesn’t consume temporary storage for a table copy, it makes DDL statements practical even for large tables on small instance types. Take a look under the hood for how we accomplish this.

This latest Quick Start from AWS automatically deploys Confluent Platform into a highly available, secure AWS Cloud environment in a few simple steps, in about 15 minutes.