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Samsung and Apple remained the top two semiconductor chip buyers in 2017, representing 19.5% of the total worldwide market, says Gartner. Samsung and Apple together bought $81.8 billion of semiconductors in 2017, an increase of more than $20 billion from 2016. “Samsung Electronics and Apple not only retained their respective No. 1 and No. 2 …

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AWS CodeBuild now supports GitHub Enterprise as the source control provider. This enables GitHub Enterprise customers to use CodeBuild’s managed build service to automatically build pull requests and commits. CodeBuild also supports access to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud resources as an existing feature, so enterprise customers can use CodeBuild without being exposed to the public internet.

This Quick Start reference deployment automatically deploys the Informatica Data Lake Management solution on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. 

Amazon EC2 Spot can now hibernate EBS-backed Amazon EC2 C5 and M5 instances in the event of an interruption. Spot instances can fulfill your request by resuming instances from a hibernated state when capacity is available. Hibernate is just like closing and opening your laptop lid, with your application starting up right where it left off.

AWS Config now supports seven new managed rules, which are predefined rules that AWS Config uses to evaluate whether your AWS resource configurations comply with common best practices.

Amazon Connect is now available in the US West (Oregon) AWS Region, increasing the number of AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is available to four. The expansion into a new AWS Region provides you more options to provision your Amazon Connect cloud contact center with the other AWS services you use. 

You can now use Amazon SageMaker to build, train, and deploy models for applications in the AWS Cloud that are subject to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance. PCI DSS is a proprietary information security standard administered by the PCI Security Standards Council and applies to all entities that store, process or transmit cardholder data and/or sensitive authentication data including merchants, processors, acquirers, issuers, and service providers.

The AWS Deep Learning AMIs are a quick and easy way to get started with machine learning. The AMIs with Source Code now come with TensorFlow 1.5.0-rc1 which supports NVidia CUDA 9 and cuDNN 7 drivers that take advantage of the V100 Volta GPUs powering the EC2 P3 instances. The Conda-based Deep Learning AMIs now come with the latest framework versions of Caffe, Keras 2.1.3, Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit 2.3.1, and Theano 1.0. The Conda-based AMIs also include TensorBoard for monitoring and debugging a TensorFlow model, and TensorFlow Serving to export TensorFlow models and create a server running a gRPC service for serving the model. Apache MXNet users can now benefit from the MXNet Model Server to quickly deploy an HTTP-based inference API for their models.

Oman’s Nama Holdings has appointed advisors to assist in privatising a number of its subsidiaries in the electricity sector.