Optoelectronics applications are expected to drive the bulk GaN substrate market from 2016 – 2022, says a report on Bulk GaN from Yole.
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CFIUS approves Renesas-Intersil merger
Companies receive notification from CFIUS that its investigation of the merger is complete and that there are no unresolved national security concerns.
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Ajit Manocha to head SEMI
Former GloFo boss Ajit Manocha is to succeed Denny McGuirk as CEO of SEMI on March 1st.
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SEMI January billings up 52% y-o-y
SEMI reports January billings of $1.86 billion, 0.5% down on the December level of $1.87 billion, and 52.3% higher than the January 2016 billings level of $1.22 billion. “Global billings reported by the North American equipment makers begin the New Year at high levels,” says SEMI CEO Denny McGuirk, “we expect strong spending growth in …
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ARM invests in Blu Wireless
Blu Wireless Technology, the Bristol WiGig specialist, has received a significant investment from ARM and other strategic and private investors. This will allow the companies’ mutual customers to deploy high performance mmWave and software defined networks (SDN) demanded for the cost-effective deployment of the forthcoming 5G standard. 10Gbps-class mmWave modems based on the Blu Wireless …
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Intel reveals Atom processors with up to 16 cores
Intel has release some details of its forthcoming C3000 Atom processors. Designed for network and storage products, the family provides up to 16 compute cores for a claimed increase of up to 2.3x compute performance compared with the previous-generation C2750 Atom. In addition, up to 19Mpacket/s of Layer 3 forwarding is available. “Unique features for the intelligent network edge …
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Q1 server DRAM price up 40% q-o-q
The Q1 contract price for server DRAM modules is 40% up on Q4, reports DRAMeXchange.
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LEDiL unveils new LED optics portfolio, adds Florence, Carmen, and Strada products
SSL product developers can now buy optics designed for stringent IP requirements from LEDiL, while the company also has a new hybrid lens/reflector optic, and more options for outdoor area lighting.
AWS Config Rules Available in Europe (London) Region
AWS Config Rules is now available in the Europe (London) AWS region.
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports additional instance types and up to 30 TB EBS capacity per domain
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports M4, C4, and R4 instance types. M4 and R4 instances provide improved compute performance at lower prices than the previous generation of M3 and R3 instances. With the C4 instance type, you can benefit from better cost effectiveness for workloads that have high indexing requirements. Additionally, on the newly supported instances, Amazon Elasticsearch Service offers increased EBS volume size up to 1.5 TB per node. The increased volume size allows you to store up to 30 TB in a single Amazon Elasticsearch Service domain using EBS-backed data nodes, which is triple the previous limit. For Provisioned IOPS SSD volumes, we have also increased the maximum to 16,000 IOPS to support the most demanding workloads. This release also offers operational enhancements that reduce the time required for performing cluster updates and snapshots, typically by more than 50%.