Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang says the company has made the biggest chip ever made with 15 billion transistors and is putting it into the densest computer ever made. Nvidia calls the chip the Tesla P100 and has put it in a 170-teraflop DGX-1 supercomputer. “This is a beast of a machine, the densest computer ever …

Nvidia’s big beast

Avnet Memec – Silica, will be holding a one-day workshop focusing on Renesas Synergy on May 4, 2016, at the offices of Avnet Memec – Silica in Newbury. The session will address the challenge of software complexity and will dive into the detail of the Renesas Synergy concept. This will be followed by a series …

Avnet Memec – Silica to hold Renesas Synergy workshop on May 4th in Newbury

This week saw the emergence of what was presumed to be an extinct breed – a CEO with balls. Jen-Hsun Huang is heading for the data centre with a 600 sq mil beast of an IC and a system to use it. The combo is designed to deliver Artificial Intelligence – an old aspiration but …

Balls

Rohm has teamed up with Amiho Technology of Cambridge to develop an sub-GHz radio for wireless M-Bus. Called AE060, it has two nodes based around Amiho’s 18 x 20mm AM060 868MHz Wireless M-Bus radio modem module, which have at their heart Rohm’s Lapis ML7345 radio transceiver. Amiho’s Wireless M-Bus stack and drivers are pre-loaded. “In …

Wireless M-Bus evaluation kit targets IoT

One of the most talked about trends in 3D Printing is how major aerospace suppliers are using the manufacturing technology for production parts. Bastian Schaefer of Airbus will describe the design and manufacturing process of the world’s largest 3D printed airplane cabin component at 3D Printing Europe on 27th & 28th April in Berlin. Brian Rosenberger …

Why aerospace firms are using 3D printing

University of Bristol scientists are attempting to speed up the detection of landmines using drone-based sensors. The objective to not to detect individual mines, but to cut the time de-mining teams spend probing empty areas – something known as ‘area reduction’ – by accurately finding the edges of minefields. Area reduction is vital because, according …

Bristol University drones hunt for minefields

Good old hactivists. It appears that the Panama Papers were revealed by hackers The head of Mossack Fonseca, Ramon Fonseca, says his firm’s database was hacked. Along with the Bradley Manning and Ed Snowden revelations this must be the one of the most important revelations from hackers. It’s not as though any of these hacks …

Good Old Hacktivists

EnOcean’s wireless wall switches will turn on Molex Power-over-Ethernet LED luminaires in smart lighting applications ensuring that legacy controls don’t have to give way completely to computers, gadgets and software.

We are excited to announce that Amazon Redshift is now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region.

We are happy to announce the immediate availability of Amazon CloudWatch Logs in the AWS China (Beijing) region.