LM-80 LED test reports from the Citizen Electronics Laboratory are no longer being accepted for market transformation programs at Energy Star and DLC after Citizen was found to have falsified some test data.

Fans have experienced an early start to the 2018 MLB season, and those in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and Kansas City are experiencing LED field lighting for the first time; and two teams will square off under SSL in a May series in Mexico.

You can now develop your AWS Lambda functions using Node.js v8.10. In addition to the leveraging new features in Node.js v8.10 such as the new V8 6.0 engine, Lambda functions written in Node.js 8.10 can now use the async/await pattern to specify error or return values for the function execution. 

You can now tag your Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Snapshots at the time of creation. You can do this from the Amazon EC2 console or through the CreateSnapshot API. By tagging resources at the time of creation, you can eliminate the need to run custom tagging scripts after resource creation.

SpaceX has got FCC approval to launch 4,425 low-orbit satellites to provide low-cost internet connectivity. Because they fly low, the satellites will deliver faster connections than geo-stationary satellites. The FCC said SpaceX has been given permission to use frequencies in the Ka (20/30 GHz) and Ku (11/14 GHz) bands “This is an important step toward …

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BELL Telephone Laboratories in the USA have a heavy research effort going into the development of  epitaxial transistors. So, 58 years ago,  started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of November 2nd 1960 The story continues: This family of devices was announced by Bell recently. The transistor is expected by many in the industry to …

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Semiconductor companies in China will be exempt from corporation tax for between two to five years after which there will be a period if partial tax reductions, says China’s finance ministry. Companies using 65nm or better processes with an investment of $2.39 billion will be exempt from all corporate tax for five years. Companies using …

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SMIC, the Beijing and Shanghai foundry company, saw 2017 revenues grow 6.4%  to  $3.1 billion but profits fall 52% to $180 million. Operating profit of $124.9 million was down from $339.2 million in 2016. Gross margin slid to 23.9% in 2017 from 29.2% in 2016, due mainly to rising depreciation costs and lower capacity utilization …

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IC packaging and testing in China generated $29 billion in revenue in 2017, making China the world’s largest consumer of packaging equipment and materials, says SEMI. China’s IC packaging and testing industry is more mature than its IC manufacturing and design sectors, reckons SEMI, though IC packaging and testing revenue growth has slowed in recent …

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Samsung has overtaken IBM to become the company with the largest number of patents registered in the US, reports the IAM/ktMINE 100 US Patent Companies, compiled by the  patent journal IAM and IP data analysis firm ktMINE. Samsung had 75,596 valid US patents, the highest, as of January and  IBM has  46,443. IBM had had the largest …

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