The SIA says semiconductor sales reached $107.9 billion in Q3, marking the industry’s highest-ever quarterly sales.

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The perpetrator of yesterday’s New York terror attack was a Uber driver. We are horrified by the senseless act of violence,” said Uber, “our hearts are with the victims and their families. We have reached out to law enforcement to provide full assistance.” Uber said  Sayfullo Saipov had passed a background check. He has been …

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Coilcraft’s has introduced a series of current sense transformers, operating up to 40A over 400Hz to 1MHz, and offering 4,000Vrms isolation voltage between the sense and output windings, using insulation reinforced to UL 60950-1. To minimise power loss, the resistance of the sense coil is very low: 840μΩ in all versions of the series, dubbed CST2020. …

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Dishwasher-safe keyboards that are anti-microbial and easy-to-clean are available from Diamond Electronics, and mouses to go with them. They are intended for clinical and home use in medical systems, clean industrial applications, food processing, semiconductor manufacturing, laboratories, point-of-sale systems and public areas. The iMTC range are sealed and water-proof to IP68, and meet medical approval …

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For developing mobile device chargers to the Qualcomm Quick Charge 4 Class A standard, Diodes and Weltrend Semiconductor have announced a 27W reference design. “Quick Charge 4 is the latest fast-charging specification from Qualcomm, offering up to 20% faster charging, up to 30% greater efficiency, and running 5% cooler when compared to Quick Charge 3.0,” …

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China’s two big DRAM potential contenders – Yangtze River Storage and Fujian Jinhua IC – are getting a local competitor. Digitimes reports that GigaDevice Semiconductor and Hefei RuiLi IC Manufacturing are to combine to spend $2.7 billion on developing a 19nm DRAM process. Hefei is to put up 80% of the $2.7 billion and GigaDevice …

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Take note, there’s a new competition on Electronics Weekly, giving you a chance to get your hands on a Texas Instruments DLP LightCrafter Display 2000 Evaluation Module.

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Following the recent announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database , we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 9.6.5, 9.5.9, 9.4.14, and 9.3.19. This release fixes three PostgreSQL security vulnerabilities and contains other bug fixes and improvements.

Starting today, qualified educational customers can reduce their Amazon AppStream 2.0 user fee by 89% from $4.19 per user per month to $0.44. The user fee is required for every AppStream 2.0 user as part of the Microsoft Remote Desktop Services Subscription Access License (RDS SAL) fee. 

AWS Direct Connect provides private, high bandwidth connectivity between customer networks and AWS Cloud. The traffic sent over AWS Direct Connect connection stays within the AWS private network instead of traversing the public internet.