Lattice Semiconductor has increased the specification of its iCE40 range of low power FPGAs for mobile applications.

Read full article: Lattice gives iCE40 more power, I/O and memory

Maria Marced, President of TSMC Europe and EMEA Chairperson of the GSA, has been appointed to the board of DSP licensing specialist CEVA.

Read full article: Maria Marced joins CEVA board

Google releases stats for the latest split of Android platform share. Covering December 2016, it’s based on active devices interacting with Google Play over the period of a week.

Read full article: Nougat barely nudges up in Android platform stats

You can now use the standard Python logging module to log error and warning messages from Amazon Redshift user-defined functions (UDF). You can then query the SVL_UDF_LOG system view to retrieve the messages logged from your UDF’s and troubleshoot your UDF’s easily.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk has simplified the process of setting up your Elastic Beanstalk environments with AWS X-Ray so you can more easily begin to analyze and debug distributed applications running on Elastic Beanstalk. The X-Ray daemon is now pre-installed on the Elastic Beanstalk platforms for Java, Node.js and .NET, reducing the setup work required to use X-Ray with Elastic Beanstalk.

Today, we are adding new pricing- and reservation-related data to the AWS Cost & Usage Report. In addition to your actual rate for your usage, you will now see the public on-demand rate for that same usage, giving you the ability to easily quantify your savings relative to public on-demand pricing. Additionally, the Cost & Usage Report now contains detailed reservation line items so that you can clearly quantify the costs associated with your reserved resources. These line items include information such as the number of Reserved Instances (“RIs”) purchased under a given subscription, the number of hours reserved under each RI within that subscription, and the total number of reserved hours across all RIs within that subscription. 

A pair of recent reports has underscored the hurdles facing the U.S. water sector.

For a lower cost, highly efficient solution for low speed, high horsepower, vertical pumping applications, think smaller.

Trends to watch in 2017

Vertical pumps are quite different from other pumps because they have more flexible motor and pump discharge casings than comparable horizontal pumps and a more flexible attachment of these casings to the foundation.