At Mike’s request, here are some pics of the Pirates’ Day fiesta:

This story continues at Piratical Pics

Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly

The last time there was a national assault on the semiconductor industry it was in the 1980s when Japan flooded the market with low-priced, high quality, DRAM. Now the assault is more subtle and coming from China, Korea and Taiwan. China has already got access to Arm’s IP thanks to Softbank’s sale of half Arm’s …

This story continues at Power Structure Shift In IC Industry

Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly

Farnell element.14 has begun to ship 65,000 micro:bit  computers to schools in Denmark as part of an order from Boarding on behalf of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. The three-year ‘ultra:bit’ programme, will use the micro:bit in the classroom to help transform Danish Year 4 students from passive technology consumers to digital pioneers. “Programmes like this …

This story continues at micro.bit going to Danish schools

Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly

Reuters have come up with a list of the ten most innovative universities. Eight of them are American. Stanford MIT Harvard Pennsylvania Washington Texas System Leuven Imperial Carolina Chapel Hill Vanderbilt      

This story continues at Reuters’ most innovative universities

Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly

A date for your diary, for a webinar: Electronics Weekly has joined forces with Goepel Electronics to discuss the structural and functional testing of sensors.

This story continues at A webinar on the structural and functional testing of sensors

Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly

GLOBALFOUNDRIES has added nine new partners to its  RFwave Partner Program, including Akronic, Ask Radio, Catena, University of Waterloo Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems (CIARS), Giga Solution, Helic, Incize, Mentor Graphics and Xpeedic Technology. They join current RFwave Program members including asicNorth, Cadence, CoreHW, CWS, Keysight Technologies, Spectral Design, and WEASIC. The new …

This story continues at GloFo expands RFwave partner programme

Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly

Check out some boards that bring LoRa technology into play, for the Raspberry Pi, Arduino and micro:bit, and such like single board computers. For example, there is a IoT LoRa Gateway HAT…

This story continues at Crowdfunding Watch: Raspberry Pi gets IoT LoRa Gateway HAT

Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly

The first transistor radio, the Regency using TI transistors, was not a market success. This bothered the makers of the second transistor radio, the TR-52,  made by the young Tokyo company Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo. When they looked at the fate of Regency the founders of the Tokyo company decided that the manufacturers had not tried …

This story continues at Naming Sony

Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly

There is a court case involving Microsemi execs, the alleged SuperMicro spy chip, replacing platinum in hydrogen fuel cells, Nvidia views on AI and FPGA-based neural networks…

This story continues at Most Read articles – Microsemi execs, SuperMicro spy chip, Nvidia AI

Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly

Customers can now use Jumbo Frames for traffic between their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and on-premises networks over AWS Direct Connect.

The maximum transmission unit (MTU) of a network connection is the size, in bytes, of the largest permissible packet that can be passed over the connection. The larger the MTU of a connection, the more data can be passed in a single packet. Until now, traffic over AWS Direct Connect was limited to 1,500 MTU.

With this release, customers can use Jumbo Frames for their AWS Direct Connect traffic. Jumbo Frames allow more than 1,500 bytes (up to 9,001 bytes) of data by increasing the payload size per packet, and thus lowering the packet overhead. As a result, you need fewer packets to send the same amount of data, which improves the end-to-end network performance. In addition, this release enables new use cases, such as supporting network overlay protocols, for on-premises connectivity over AWS Direct Connect.

Support for Jumbo Frames over AWS Direct Connect is available in all AWS Regions. For more information see the AWS Direct Connect documentation .