We held the celebratory awards event at the prestigious venue of the Houses of Parliament, which proved a happy venue and a colourful backdrop.

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  Infineon is back in the top ten semiconductor rankings after dropping out following its withdrawal, a decade or so ago,  from the DRAM, mobile chip and wired broadband IC markets, according to IC Insights. The top-10 semiconductor suppliers represented 56% of the 1Q17 worldwide semiconductor market of $99.6 billion (2Q17 is forecast to be …

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Toshiba has demo-ed 64-layer BiCS FLASH TLC 3D NAND technology on an XG Series client NVMe PCIe SSD. The 512Gbit device has  3-bit-per-cell (TLC) technology. It is based on the third generation 64-layer stacking process featuring 65%  greater bit density per mm2 than Toshiba’s 48-layer, 256GB (32 gigabyte) device. Toshiba is currently migrating all client, …

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Nvidia had Q1 revenues of $1.94 billion – up 48% y-o-y. Q1 operating profit was $554 million, up 126% y-o-y. GPUs accounted for $1.56 billion of revenues. Gross margin increased 1.9% y-o-y to 59.4%. Gaming revenue rose 49% y-o-y to $1.027 billion, datacentre revenues neatly tripled y-o-y to $409 million and auto sales were $140 …

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It has taken just over a month, but Swiss firm MyKronoz has raised funding of $5.3m through crowd-funding on Kickstarter. The firm’s hybrid smartwatch called ZeTime incorporates mechanical hands over TFT colour touchscreen, and it has become the most-funded project from a European company. Boris Brault, CEO and founder of MyKronoz, writes: “We are achieving …

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Thanks to the Reputation Institute for this one – the ten most trusted brands in the UK: 1- Dyson 2 – Aston Martin 3 – Lego 4 – Michelin 5 – Sony 6 – Waitrose 7 – Intel 8 – PayPal 9 – Samsung 10 – Rolls-Royce Aerospace

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region.

We are excited to announce new edge locations for Amazon CloudFront in Tokyo, Japan and Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. Each new edge location helps improve performance and availability for end users of your application.

USAspending.gov data is now available for anyone to access via Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). USAspending.gov is a government website launched in 2007 to provide access to the federal spending data mandated by the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006. USAspending.gov includes data on all spending by the federal government, including contracts, grants, loans, employee salaries, and more. This data can be used by researchers, entrepreneurs, and anyone interested in analyzing how federal tax dollars are spent. Learn more about how to access the data on the USAspending.gov on AWS landing page and on Jeff Barr’s blog .

AWS X-Ray is now available in the Europe (London) and Canada (Central) regions.