u-blox and Play Inc collaborate on a connected GPS padlock for industrial applications.

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GPU Technology Conference, Munich: According to Nvidia founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, there are two dynamics controlling the computing industry today – the end of Moore’s law and software that can write itself, artificial intelligence, or AI. The end of Moore’s law, which states that the density of a chip doubles every two years, while …

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Portsmouth-based Harwin has presented Avnet Abacus with its annual sales excellence award.   Harwin was particularly impressed by the sales growth that the distributor has achieved in all key European markets, across products ranging from its high reliability connectors to PCB hardware.  “The distributor has managed to realise a 70% year-on-year increase in sales revenue, said Harwin. …

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Omron Electronic Components Europe has introduced a new version of its USB multi-function environmental sensor that that can monitor seven parameters. The 2JCIE-BU01 offers multiple sensors in one unit that has built-in memory and connectivity through beacon communication. It  measures 14.9 x 29.1 x 7.0mm and can monitor temperature, humidity, light, UV, barometric pressure, noise, …

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Apple is buying Dialog’s power management unit in a deal said to be worth $600 million. Dialog has been under pressure ever since Apple said it was working on developing its own PMIC chips. Last year, Apple accounted for 75% of Dialog’s sales. After the sale, Apple will account for 35-40% of Dialog’s sales. Dialog’s …

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The judging is over and the shortlist revealed – we are proud to announce the Elektra Awards 2018 finalists… To view the shortlisted finalists simply access the 2018 Shortlist section of our Elektra Awards micro-site. Congratulations to one and all! Categories of awards range from Design Team of the Year and Educational Support Award to …

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98 years ago a company was founded to make light bulbs for cars. The founder named his company after an explorer because he thought that the explorer had brought light to dark countries and it was his ambition to bring light to dark highways. When LEDs came along, the company realised they would destroy their …

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Amazon Connect will be available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Region in the coming months, which lets businesses in Japan offer the best possible customer service experience to their customers.  The expansion into Tokyo provides  you more options to provision your Amazon Connect cloud contact center with the other AWS services you use.  

Amazon SageMaker now includes an improved Pipe Mode implementation that accelerates the speed at which data can be streamed from Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) into SageMaker, while training machine learning (ML) models. The latest implementation of Pipe Mode provides up to 9 times better data streaming throughput compared to File Mode.

AWS Cost Explorer’s Reserved Instance (RI) Utilization and Coverage reports provide you with the ability to visualize your utilization and coverage trends both at a high level (e.g., utilization across all Amazon RDS reservations) or for highly-specific requests (e.g., utilization of all regional Amazon EC2 reservations owned by a particular linked account).