At Strategies in Light, Tricia Foster of Acuity Brands Lighting and Catherine Hollenshead of Estes, McClure & Associates will outline a case study on a Texas school district’s experience with implementing tunable lighting in several classrooms.

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The SIA has welcomed President Trump’s tax reform act. “Congressional approval today of legislation to reform America’s outdated corporate tax system is a welcome and long-overdue win for the U.S. semiconductor industry and a major step toward sustaining U.S. leadership in semiconductor research, design, and manufacturing. “The bill includes several important provisions that SIA has …

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China’s National Development and Reform Commission’s Pricing Supervision Department, is looking into mobile NAND price fixing according to the China Daily newspaper. NAND prices increased by over 32% in 2017, says Trendforce, though there are currently signs of a slowdown in price rises and the possibility of over-supply in the New Year. There are only …

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Intel has lost the opportunity to match TI’s record of 25 successive years as the No.1 semiconductor  company, says The Nikkei Asian Review. Samsung’s ‘msemiconductor sales between January and September stood at $49.2 billion, up 46% from the year-earlier period. Intel’s sales for the period increased 6%, to $45.7 billion. TI reigned supreme between 1959 …

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One of the interesting things about the US tech industry next year is what it will do with its new-found billions. The US corporation tax has gone down to 21% from 35% and the tax rate at which foreign profits can be re-patriated is 15.5%. Sitting off-shore are $252 billion of Apple profits, $128 billion …

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The Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service scheduler now allows you to define a grace period to prevent premature shutdown of newly instantiated tasks. 

The Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service scheduler now includes logic that throttles how often tasks are restarted if they repeatedly fail to launch. 

You can now use Apache Spark 2.2.1, Apache Hive 2.3.2, and Amazon SageMaker integration with Apache Spark on Amazon EMR release 5.11.0. Spark 2.2.1 and Hive 2.3.2 include various bug fixes and improvements. Amazon SageMaker Spark is an open-source Spark library for Amazon SageMaker, a fully-managed service which can build, train, and deploy machine learning models at scale. It enables you to interleave Spark stages and stages that interact with Amazon SageMaker in your Spark ML Pipelines, allowing you to train models using Spark DataFrames in Amazon SageMaker with Amazon-provided ML algorithms like K-Means clustering or XGBoost.

The PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora is now available in the AWS EU (Paris) region. This increases the number of available regions to nine, giving you more options for database placement, availability, and scalability.