Forbes carries a piece on the impact of Brexit on the semiconductor industry and its conclusion is: not much. Most semiconductor products and their manufacturing equipment is duty-free under WTO rules, says Forbes. The US supplies 50% of the market and China uses 50% of all semiconductor production. Europe makes less than 10% of worldwide …

Effect Of Brexit On IC Industry – Not Much

Rambus has bought Inphi’s Memory Interconnect Business for $90 million in cash. The acquisition includes all assets of the Inphi Memory Interconnect Business including product inventory, customer contracts, supply chain agreements and intellectual property. The combined business strengthens Rambus’ position in memory buffer chip products and amplifies execution for future non-volatile memory programmes. “By combining …

Rambus buys Inphi’s memory interconnect business

Q1 sales of cloud computing infrastructure products (server, storage, and Ethernet switch) grew by 3.9% year over year to $6.6 billion, says IDC. “A slowdown in hyperscale public cloud infrastructure deployment demand negatively impacted growth in both public cloud and cloud IT overall,” says IDC’s Kuba Stolarski, “private cloud deployment growth also slowed, as 2016 …

Cloud infrastructure growth slows

Eight years ago, when Moshe Gavrielov became CEO of Xilinx, he saw it as the ‘dream job’. “I’ve been 30 years in the semiconductor industry,” he said at the time, “ I spent ten years designing microprocessors and SOCs, then ten years in ASIC, and then ten years in EDA, so I think of it …

The Slow-Growth Market

INEX is closing the Innovation Gap for the manufacturing of specialist MEMs, sensors and compound semiconductors. The Innovation Gap is the transition from developing a product in a lab to getting it made cost-effectively in a suitable fab. This becomes extremely difficult when people are developing products using radically new materials. “MEMS has gone from …

INEX closes Innovation Gap

sureCore, the Sheffield low-power SRAM IP specialist, has received another tranche of cash from Mercia (which took over another sureCore’s previous investor EVG). Mercia led the Series B seven figure investment round alongside existing investors Finance Yorkshire Seedcorn Fund and Capital-E. EVG had previously invested £1,020,000 seed and early stage finance via its Finance Yorkshire …

sureCore raises more cash

There’s so much PoE illumination at this data center that one vendor wasn’t enough.

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Amazon EC2 Run Command now works with any instance or virtual machine outside of AWS, including VMs running in your own data centers or in other clouds. If you have hybrid environments that span on-premises to AWS, you now have a consistent experience to extend your scripts across locations. Through a single interface, you can now run scripts for repetitive tasks for both Windows and Linux operating systems running within Amazon EC2, VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, and many other platforms.   With Amazon EC2 Run Command, you can automate administrative tasks such as executing Linux Shell scripts and commands, running Windows PowerShell commands, installing software or patches, and more across instances, irrespective of location.