You can now generate access logs for AWS Elemental MediaStore containers. These logs are available in Amazon CloudWatch and provide detailed visibility into requests made to any object stored in the container. This can help with troubleshooting and enables in-depth analysis by feeding logs into analytics systems or log processing tools. Logs record PutObject, GetObject, DescribeObject, DeleteObject, and ListItems requests. Learn how to enable access logs here .

RISC-V support is now available in the FreeRTOS kernel, a feature enabling embedded developers to create IoT applications on the officially supported FreeRTOS kernel for microcontrollers that use the free, open, and extensible RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA).

Note the deadline for entries to EW BrightSparks 2019 – Thursday 28 February 2019. Please nominate a deserving colleague or friend.

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Can the SOX be wrong? This year it’s up 17%. So the question is: Would the SOX be so high for an industry so heavily dependent on the China market, if the smart money thought the US-China trade war was going to last all year? Stock exchanges are funny beasts but one would think not. …

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January billings for semiconductor manufacturing equipment fell 10.5% compared to December’s billings, reports SEMI. As well as being down on December’s billings total if $2.1 billion, the January billings of $1.89 billion were also 20.8% down on the January 2018 billings figure of $2.37 billion. The January decline was the third consecutive month of decline. …

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THE provision of suitable storage constitutes a major engineering problem in computer design. So, 58 years ago, started an article by K.L. Smith of IBM in Electronics Weekly’s edition of May 24th 1961. The article continued: Memories are inevitably slower than the associated processors, and resort has to be made to parallel memory operation to …

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Q4 DRAM revenues fell by 18.3% QoQ, reports DRAMeXchange. ASPs of mainstream 8GB modules have fallen to $50 for January, and will continue to fall through in February and March, says DRAMeXchange, with an estimated decline of 20-25% for Q1. The production bit levels of DRAM suppliers in 4Q18 were far above sales bit levels, …

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Infineon will sample an eSIM  for mobile consumer devices in the middle of the year. It will be a tested and certified end-to-end solution comprising a chip, operating software and services. To facilitate technical integration of the eSIM into consumer devices and accelerate time to market, Infineon can also provide data plans in cooperation with …

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This is the sixth in a series of essays by Imec on the future of electronics technology. This one is called: Smart Industries. Man and machine collaborating on the factory floor: a nightmare or a match made in heaven? What will our factories look like in 2035? asks Pieter Simoens of the University of Ghent, …

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At Embedded World today, Insight SiP, the specialist in ultra-miniature RF modules, is launching the ISP4520 series of modules, extending its product portfolio to include Long Range Networking via LoRa technology. The ISP4520 module integrates BLE and LoRa radio functionality to offer a unique solution, combining the short-range high throughput capability and easy smartphone/PC access …

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