We are excited to announce the release of Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.2, which includes 218 new improvements, fixes, and features to Amazon’s free, cross-platform, 3D engine that enables developers to create the highest-quality games, connect their games to the AWS Cloud, and engage fans on Twitch. Lumberyard Beta 1.2 introduces improvements to 20 of Lumberyard’s technology components, including the particle editor, networking, FBX importer, Cloud Canvas Resource Manager, and more. Read about the update in the Lumberyard blog or for more detail check the full Lumberyard Beta 1.2 release notes .
Amazon Redshift announces Enhancements to Data Loading, Security, and SAS Integration
BACKUP NO option when creating tables: You can now use the BACKUP NO option with the CREATE TABLE command , and improve data loading and cluster performance. For tables, such as staging tables, which contain only transient and pre-processed data, specify BACKUP NO to save processing time when creating snapshots and restoring from snapshots. This option also reduces storage space used by snapshots.
Oman tenders for advice on desalination plans
State-owned Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP) has tendered for advisory
services for its plans to up its water production capacity from 2022.
West Virginia American Water files infrastructure replacement program application
Company has invested approximately $150 million in water infrastructure since the last base rate increase.
IDA seeks nominations for new water reuse and conservation awards
The International Desalination Association (IDA) has invited nominations for three awards recognizing achievemnts in water reuse and conservation that will be presented at the association’s first ever conference devoted to water reuse.
Amazon shows its strength
Amazon had Q1 sales of $29 billion for a profit of $513 million. Its cloud service had revenues of $2.57 billion representing about 30% of the cloud services market leaving cloud rivals Google and Microsoft trailing. The cloud business had profits of $604 million in Q1. It delivers 56% of the operating income at Amazon …
The ST Hornet’s Nest
There was an interesting question at the ST results meeting earlier this week: “There was recently a Bloomberg report regarding the contract of the CEO,” asked an analyst, “if – I think your contract is expiring somewhere in May – and there were rumors – STM a new CEO. Any comments there or did I …
Tsinghua rebuffed again
Poor old Tsinghua has had another investment bid rejected – this time by the Taiwan assembly house SPIL (Siliconware Precision Industries). Tsinghua had offered to buy 25% of SPIL for $600 million. The sale to Tsinghua would have thwarted a bid by fellow Taiwanese assembly company ASE to take over SPIL. The Taiwan Fair Trade …
Operation Crush at Samsung
After Micron bought Elpida it was expected that the memory industry would consolidate around four players Samsung, Micron, Toshiba/SanDisk and Hynix. But, according to Bernstein analyst Mark Newman, Samsung’s strategy is to expand its shares of the DRAM and NAND markets from its current 40% to 50% each. This will hit competitors Hynix and Micron …
Crowd funding changing the game for chip firms
Another semiconductor company is using crowd-funding to find the investment needed to bring a product to production and into the commercial market. Lime Microsystems has started a crowd-funding campaign to bring their LimeSDR software defined radio platform into full-scale production. The company is hoping to raise $500,000 to fund the final stages of development and …