A tear-down of iPhone X by IHS Markit estimates that the 64GB version has a BOM of $370.25.

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  Automotive electronic system sales will have a CAGR of 5.4% from 2016 through 2021, says IC Insights, making auto the fastest growing of the six major electronics systems markets.   Demand is rising for electronic systems in new cars with increasing attention focused on self-driving (autonomous) vehicles, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications, as …

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High-end human body motion-sensing technology could become widely available, following the purchase of Dutch motion tracking firm Xsens by California MEMS accelerometer maker mCube. Xsens technology is used by computer games companies, film makers and clinicians to accurately track the movement of limbs and other major body parts. For example, it is used to record …

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Qualcomm has begun commercial shipments of 10nm server processors.

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DGD2136 is a 600V integrated three-phase gate driver IC from Diodes, intended to drive six n‑channel mosfets or IGBTs in three half-bridges.

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There was once a Scotsman who invented a communications device. He patented it in the USA because the UK authorities were snotty about it. For instance the British Post Master General said: “While the Americans may need such a daft thing, Britain still has plenty of small boys to run around with messages.” The patent …

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We are pleased to announce that Application Auto Scaling now supports scheduled scaling, which makes it possible to scale resources at specific preset times or intervals. Application Auto Scaling allows you to automatically scale resources for AWS services beyond Amazon EC2, including Amazon ECS, Amazon EC2 Spot Fleets, Amazon EMR Clusters, AppStream 2.0 fleets, and Amazon DynamoDB. 

Control the tonal quality of Amazon Polly’s voice output with the new vocal-tract-length Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) tag. Adjusting the “vocal tract length” will modify the tone quality, called timbre, to make a voice sound characteristically different without adjusting rate and pitch. This tag can be used with any of the voices in the Amazon Polly Text-to-Speech portfolio to produce many variations for a single voice. 

Amazon Inspector is pleased to announce the addition of native severity data for the Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVE), and CIS Benchmarks rule packages, along with support for security assessments on CentOS Enterprise Linux 7.4 within Amazon EC2.  

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis introduces Online Cluster Resizing to add and remove shards from a running cluster. You can now dynamically scale-out or scale-in your Redis cluster workloads to adapt to changes in demand. ElastiCache will resize the cluster and redistribute hash slots uniformly across the new shard configuration, all while the cluster continues to stay online and serve requests. Additionally, for optimized processing, you can also rebalance a cluster and uniformly distribute the slot space, without changing the number of shards.