Chip sales fell 2% in 2015 to $347.5 billion, says IHS. Q1 saw an 8.9% sequential fall – the biggest since Q1 2009. The 2% y-o-y fall follows growth of 8.3% in 2014 and 6.4% in 2013. “Weak results last year signal the beginning of what is expected to be a three-year period of declining …

Chip sales fell 2% in 2015

Raytheon UK has collaborated with Newcastle University to produce silicon carbide (SiC) based amplifier circuitry with operational amplifier like characteristics. The research has used the thermal characteristics of SiC not in a high power device, but in small-signal circuitry that can operate in high temperatures. “To date, the focus on Silicon Carbide semiconductors has been …

UK researchers make high temperature op amp in SiC

Rather taken by this idea that being a coder leads to fame and fortune I ask my grandchildren if they think they should learn how to code. I suggest that a MicroBit or a Raspberry Pi would be a useful start. Zero response. Horse to water sort of thing. In the USA, apparently increasing numbers …

Horse To Water

Having had a bad experience with trying to run an earlier version of Microchip’s MPLAB X integrated development environment on Linux, and following a conversation with Lucio Di Jasio of Microchip, I decided to have another go. He told me that there were issues with early versions of MPLAB-X-for-Linux if the wrong version of Java was …

MPLAB-X success

Stage and architectural lighting developers get wider color range from newest LED Engin product while Lumileds roles rugged mid-power LED and Osram Opto targets outdoor applications.

You can now use upgraded versions of Apache Spark (1.6.1) , Apache Hadoop (2.7.2) , and an upgraded sandbox release of Presto (0.140) on Amazon EMR release 4.5.0 . Spark 1.6.1 was released in the community on March 9th, and it contains several bug fixes and updates to the Dataset API. Additionally, the EMR Filesystem (EMRFS) can now read objects from and write objects to Amazon S3 with S3 server-side encryption with AWS Key Management Service keys (SSE-KMS) . Previously, EMRFS supported S3 server-side encryption with S3 managed keys (SSE-S3) and S3 client-side encryption with AWS KMS keys or custom keys .

Today we are excited to announce two new predefined commands for EC2 Run Command for your Windows instances. To learn more about how to use these new commands, please visit the user guide .

Transcript for the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for the week of April 4, 2016.

SAWS Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) reached its highest storage milestone ever this week, surpassing 100,000 acre-feet (about 33 billion gallons) of water available for future use.

SUEZ wins a contract with the American municipality of Putnam, CT to manage and operate its water and wastewater system for the next 10 years, with two five-year renewal options.