In the latest LED business developments, Royal Philips has reported 3% sales growth led by the strength of LED lighting, while Current, Powered by GE has added more partners in its connected lighting push and Mitsubishi Chemical has won a red-phosphor IP battle.

AWS CloudFormation has updated support for four services. You can now use the following features with CloudFormation:

AWS IoT is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region.  

Xylem has launched the Flygt BIS 1 biogas support system specially adapted for the wall-mounting of submersible mixers in biogas digeters…

A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for April 25, 2016. 

Toray Industries Japan acquired 100 % of the shares from Woongjin Chemicals (CSM) and consolidated the company into Toray group. Toray Membrane Europe is the sales organization for all Toray membrane products in water treatment and process applications.

AMD has licensed x86 technology to China. Under a deal with Tianjin Haiguang Advanced Technology Investment Co (THATIC), AMD will set up a joint venture company to make x86-based processors for servers made and sold in China. In return, AMD gets a licensing fee of $293 million plus royalties of which it has already had …

AMD Licenses x86 To China

Could drones really be a big deal? Well Intel and Qualcomm certainly seem to think so and a report from Business mIntelligenceg forecasts  19% CAGR for the drone market between 2015 and 2020 with some hefty numbers. They’re talking about a $9 billion market this year. In the US, BI believes that the law will …

Are Drones Goiing To Be A Big Deal?

Two camera add-ons for the Raspberry Pi 3 now offer 8megapixel resolution. An integrated image sensor also enables the computer board to capture 3280 x 2464 pixel static images. The Raspberry Pi Camera v2 and Raspberry Pi NoIR Camera v2 modules which measure 25mm x 35mm x9mm are available from element14. The v2 cameras have …

Raspberry Pi gets 8Mpixel camera module

VersaSense’s MicroPnP IoT platform, based on Linear Tech’s SmartMesh IP embedded networking, delivers low-cost, zero-configuration wireless sensing and actuation. MicroPnP is an IoT hardware and software platform that reduces the total cost of ownership for sensing and control systems. Its creators say it delivers: Plug-and-play identification of sensors and actuators at 10 million times lower …

MicroPnP IoT platform uses LTC SmartMesh networking IP