Nichia thinks it has a record-breaker on its hands with its 319A high-power LED

Read full article: Lux Live: Nichia claims efficiency record for production LED

V-Tac has lunached ‘Nano-Plastic’ T8 LED lighting tubes with A++ efficiency The tubes are available in 60, 120 or 150cm lengths and are GS approved. A ‘Nano-Plastic’ shell is claimed to allowing for better light transmittance “With a shell less than 0.5mm thick, the light emitted is softer and spreads more evenly, diffusing any glare, …

Read full article: V-Tac launches A++ T8 tubes

Flex Logix is offering FPGA cores for TSMC’s 40nm, 28nm and 16nm processes, Flex Logic is a two and a half year-old start-up backed by $7.4 million of venture capital. The Flex Logix technology has the ability to stitch cores together and, with 49 linked 2,500 LUT cores, can put 100,000 LUTs on an SoC. …

Read full article: Flex Logix’ stitchable LUT blocks for SoCs

The University of New South Wales is claiming an efficiency record for a ‘large’ (16cm2) perovskite solar cell.

Read full article: Australia claims perovskite solar record

Glenrothes chip and MEMS fab Semefab is to get a £220,000 Regional Selective Assistance from Scottish Enterprise towards equipment

Read full article: Semefab gets £220,000 for equipment from Scottish Enterprise

An IoT security consultant shows an overflow crowd at LuxLive just how easy it is to waltz into a Wi-Fi network, steal passwords, and all that stuff.

Amazon EC2 I3 instances are the latest generation of Storage Optimized High-I/O instances, designed for the most demanding High I/O workloads, featuring low-latency Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) based SSDs. I3 instances are ideal for workloads like transactional processing systems, relational and NoSQL databases, data warehousing applications, analytics workloads and Elasticsearch workloads.

Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs allow you to easily attach low-cost graphics acceleration to current generation EC2 instances. With Elastic GPUs, you choose the GPU resources that are sized for your workload, so you can accelerate the graphics performance of your applications for a fraction of the cost of stand-alone graphics instances.  Elastic GPUs are ideal If you need a small amount of GPU for graphics acceleration, or have applications that could benefit from some GPU, but also require high amounts of compute, memory, or storage. 

The AWS IoT Button Enterprise Program is designed for businesses to expand their existing applications or build new applications that connect to a simple IoT button device. It enables businesses to offer new services or improve existing products using the click of a physical button to trigger services in the cloud.

In May, we officially launched the AWS IoT Button and were overwhelmed by the support the button received from the developer community. We listened to your suggestions and are pleased to announce an improved developer experience for the AWS IoT Button.