New operational efficiencies enabled by IoT are generating significant returns in manufacturing for the smart factory, says Dell’s Dermot O’Connell.

Read full article: Comment: Five steps to enabling a data-driven, smart factory

Is AMD on the way back? Money says Yes. This time last year AMD shares were $2, now they’re pushing $12. If you go back to Q4 2015 the shares were $1.70 and there was talk of Chapter 11. Since then a company which lost nearly half a billion dollars last year saw its share …

Read full article: The Come-Back Kid

Oculus ordered by a Texas court to pay for using ZeniMax Media’s code in the Oculus Rift head-set

Read full article: $500m judgment against Oculus

Controlled SSL system bathes the Pont des Amours bridges in dramatic light while lovers that visit the bridge will find the effects subtle with bridge surface lighting hidden in railings.

Cree LEDs, including some of the Photo Red horticultural LEDs, are combined with LEDiL optics and Adura SinkPad technology in the 1966-GLA and 1950-GLA horticultural LED light engines.

The IT company’s Digital Building Ethernet box will support lighting, heating, security, and other building operations without the electricity losses associated with some PoE schemes.

Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, you can create an API that acts as a “front door” for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from your back-end services, such as workloads running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), code running on AWS Lambda, or any Web application. Amazon API Gateway handles all the tasks involved in accepting and processing up to hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls, including traffic management, authorization and access control, monitoring, and API version management.

AWS Lambda is now available in the Europe (London) region. 

The compound semiconductor cluster at Cardiff led by IQE receives £13 million from the EU. The grant will go to establishing a clean- room in Card

Read full article: EU gives £13m to Cardiff Compound Cluster

Rohm says it is selling the world’s smallest reflector-type high brightness 3-colour LED. It is optimized for consumer devices such as matrix light sources for gaming and wearables.

Read full article: Rohm claims world’s smallest reflector LED