Imec and Holst Centre presented a wide-area (LPWA) multi-standard radio chip today at Imec’s annual technology forum in Brussels this morning. The new radio chip is a best-in-class product, which can operate with a lower level of power consumption than any other radio chip technology released to date for long range connectivity in sensor networks. …

ITF2016: Imec presents sub-GHz LPWA radio chip

Thanks to IHS for this one – the world’s top 25 semiconductor companies:

Top 25 Semiconductor Companies 2015

The eBike in question is made by FLUX. It’s a Tesla battery bike only in the sense that the 17A extended lithium battery, available as an option, is the same as those used in the Tesla model S.

Crowdfunding Watch: Tesla Model S battery powers the FLUX eBike

There is plenty of talk about IoT in general, but case studies of real-world implementations are less common. You may want to check out this free Intel whitepaper about Digital signage for transit systems.

Real world IoT implementations – Digital signage for transit systems

Gordon Moore was presented with Imec’s lifetime achievement award at ITF2016 in Brussels this morning. Imec CEO Luc van den Hove went over to Hawaii to talk to Moore and extracts of their conversation were shown to ITF delegates. Modest as always, Moore said Moore’s Law had little effect on the industry. He was observing …

Gordon Moore’s Three Heroes

You can now use Amazon Elastic Transcoder to create MPEG-DASH streams. MPEG-DASH is a standard for HTTP based adaptive bitrate streaming of video. With Elastic Transcoder support for MPEG-DASH, you can now reach a wide range of DASH-compatible devices (from desktop to mobile and OTT) with fewer output renditions created using the same easy workflows that Elastic Transcoder supports for HLS and Smooth Streaming. This enables you to simplify your video processing workflows and helps improve cost efficiency. 

Instance Console Screenshot provides an on-demand screenshot of the instance console, conveying valuable debug information. This capability is particularly useful when diagnosing instances that have become unreachable via RDP (Windows) or SSH (Linux) due to in-progress software updates, VM Import issues, or other blocking system events. Screenshots can be viewed in the AWS console or accessed via the AWS API or CLI, with both Linux and Windows instances supported .

UNION ALL performance improvement: Business analytics often involves time-series data, which is data generated or aggregated daily, weekly, monthly or at other intervals. By storing time-series data in separate tables —one table for each time interval—and using a UNION ALL view over those tables, you can avoid potentially costly table updates. Amazon Redshift now runs UNION ALL queries up to 10 times faster if they involve joins, and up to 2 times faster if they don’t involve any joins. This performance improvement is automatic and requires no action on your part and is available in version 1.0.1057 and above. For more information about UNION ALL views and time-series tables, see Using Time-Series Tables in the Amazon Redshift Database Developer Guide.

The best description of T.J Rodgers, the founding CEO of Cypress, is that he’s “an engineer’s engineer’. An engineer’s curiosity took him into areas like optical networking and solar power, buying optical specialist HiBand Semiconductor in 2001 and investing $8 million in Sun Power in 2002. In 2005 Sun Power had an IPO in which …

T.J.

GloFo has enhanced its 130nm RF SiGe process to deliver 5G performance. The technology is optimized for customers who need improved performance solutions for automotive radar, satellite communications, 5G millimeter-wave base stations and other wireless and wireline communication network applications. GLoFo’s SiGe 8XP technology is the latest extension to the company’s 130nm high-performance SiGe family …

GloFo enhances 130nm SiGe RF process