Here’s an interesting chart from Bernstein Research showing TSMC’s and Foxconn’s client base. Out of 450 customers at TSMC , two provide a quarter of TSMC’s revenues and 60% 0f Foxconn’s..  

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Could this be the year we start to see artificial intelligence (AI) starting to make an impact on businesses and our lives? According to a recent market survey by online marketplace OnBuy.com, the market expects AI to have its largest impact in engineering, administration and customer service. Cas Paton, managing director, OnBuy.com writes: “It’s interesting …

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Imagination has announced its  GPU IP core based on its PowerVR Furian architecture, the Series8XT GT8525. Furian aims to deliver high-resolution, immersive graphics content and data computation for sustained time periods within mobile power budgets. The two-cluster GT8525 targets  SoCs for products such as high-end smartphones and tablets, mid-range dedicated VR and AR devices and …

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A showed me a clever thing, a 1Hz reference based on a quartz clock module. These are inside just about every ‘quartz clock’ and are powered by a single AA cell. Apparently, the pcb inside provides narrow pulses to two outputs, across which a high-resistance solenoid is wired. This solenoid pushes the hands around via …

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Hon Hai founder and chairman Terry Gou is in something of a dilemma. After his trip to see President Trump he appears to have given a commitment to build a manufacturing plant in the US. Reuters reports that construction could begin this year. Whether it is to be a display factory or an assembly plant …

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The LED lighting specialist reveals more about its forthcoming AXiO line of IoT luminaires and services.

Amazon WorkMail now supports the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) protocol for sending email, which allows you to use an Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) capable email client to send email through WorkMail. Previously, you could use an IMAP email client to access your WorkMail email, but to send email, you still needed to configure an SMTP end point using a service like Amazon Simple Email Service. With this new feature, you can use your IMAP email client to access and send email through Amazon WorkMail directly. 

Today, we enabled additional Active Directory (AD) features in AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), also known as Managed AD, that make it easier to migrate more .NET applications to the AWS Cloud. You can now improve the security of .NET applications by using group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA) and Kerberos constrained delegation (KCD) enabled features. With gMSA, you can narrow permissions to your account, thereby reducing risks by not using built-in user accounts with full server control. gMSA makes it easier to manage .NET applications by creating and rotating the account password automatically, and a single account can be used by one or more application servers.

Starting today, customers running Amazon WorkSpaces in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS region can use AWS Marketplace for Desktop Apps to purchase pre-packaged applications on a monthly subscription basis.

Adds high purity water systems and service to portfolio.