Rohm announces a 10W isolated flyback dc-dc-dc converter for industrial auxillary supplies.

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Avnet agrees to sell its IT system distribution and services business to Tech Data in a stock and cash deal worth $2.6bn.

Read full article: Avnet sharpens IoT focus with IT sale

ON completes its previously announced $2.4 billion cash acquisition of Fairchild.

Read full article: ON completes Fairchild acquisition following China approvals

Has Ultrahaptics, the mid-air touch start-up, sold a license for its haptics touch technology to Apple? I asked Ultrahaptics CEO Steve Cliffe this question at an event organised by Publitek on Bavaria’s Tegernsee lakeside last week. “I can’t reveal my licensees,” replied Cliffe, “it’s very frustrating.” An Apple license would, of course, transform the fortunes …

Read full article: Spiders Running Up Your Arm? Ultrahaptics Can Do That.

Operators of high-performance parallel computers can now gauge their power consumption in detail as the Adept Project releases open-source energy measurement tools. Over its 3-year lifespan, the Edinburgh-based Adept project brought together experts from high-performance computing (HPC) and embedded computing to develop a suite of hardware and software tools that help evaluate and optimise system …

Read full article: How much energy is your supercomputer wasting?

It’s the Finnish LED lighting company’s latest management move aimed at reshaping itself as a digital force.

AWS Cost Explorer is a tool that helps you to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS spending. You can view your spend by service or by linked account, with your choice of daily or monthly granularity. You can also create custom filters based on the accounts, time period, services, or tags that are of particular interest to you.

We are excited to announce a new edge location in Mumbai, India (Asia-Pacific) for Amazon CloudFront. This is the second edge location for Mumbai and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 61.

Amazon RDS SQL Server now supports Local Time Zones. You can now set the time zone for your Amazon RDS for SQL Server instances to the local time zone for your application.  

You can now provision aliases in AWS Key Management Service (KMS). An alias creates a display name for a customer master key. Visit here to learn more.