Starting today, M5 instances are available in the AWS US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Canada (Central) Regions, in addition to AWS US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), Europe (London), Europe (Paris) and EU (Ireland) Regions.

Double Trouble, Ed confides to his diary, two of the Department’s biggest suppliers gave gone bust and the PM asked me some very sharp questions in Cabinet today about why we kept giving them orders we should have known they were in trouble. Naturally I tried to shuffle off the blame onto officials, but actually …

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Imec produces a 2nd generation version of its SNAPSCAN hyperspectral imaging camera.

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The top five places in the China smartphone market were taken by Chinese vendors, says Digitimes Research. Huawei is the biggest supplier, Oppo and Xiaomi are tied on No.2, Vivo is No.4 and Lenovo No.5. Oppo and Vivo are both made by the same company – BBK Electronics. After a 10% rise in China smartphone …

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Q4 smartphone unit shipments declined by 4.5% to 387.5 million units, says IHS. Shipments grew 3.1% y-o-y 1.4 billion units to 1.44 billion units. Of the leading handset brands, only Xiaomi and Motorola experienced shipment growth in the fourth quarter of 2017. Apple led the Q4 market shipping 77.3 million units, which was 1.2% lower …

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Later today, Broadcom is expected to announce an improved bid for Qualcomm. The new bid is expected to be $80-82 per share valuing Qualcomm at $145 billion. The old bid was $70 per share valuing Qualcomm at $130 billion. It is reported that, if the new bid is received favourably in San Diego, then Broadcom …

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Intel may be the exclusive supplier of modems to for the iPhones launched this year according to Ming-Chi Kuo (pictured) the Apple-watching securities analyst at KGI Securities. “We expect Intel to be the exclusive supplier of baseband chip for 2H18 new iPhone models, while Qualcomm may not have a share of the orders at all,” …

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Wafer prices will rise 20% this year says Doris Hsu, chair of GlobalWafers GlobalWafers has booked out all its 2018 capacity across 16 plants, says Hsu. To meet demand it will run all 16 plants 365 days next year which will inrease output by 7%. GlobalWafers’ China partner Ferrotec has built a 100,000 8” wpm …

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Check out the Cue robot from Wonder Workshop. Basically the idea is for kids to have some fun with a cute and clever device, while learning how to code

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At the end of the 80s, with the founders themselves approaching 80, HP was going astray. A long-time employee sent a note to the Chairman saying she spent all her time in meetings and no time being productive. In most companies most chairmen would ignore such a note, but this chairman was David Packard. He …

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