This Quick Start automatically deploys IBM Cloud Private into a new virtual private cloud (VPC) on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. A regular deployment takes about 60 minutes, and a high availability (HA) deployment takes about 75 minutes to complete. The Quick Start includes AWS CloudFormation templates and a deployment guide.

Falling out with President Trump has downside consequences. ZTE was deprived of US components and nearly bankrupted, Huawei is seeing its global expansion plans trashed, Fujian Jin Hua saw its $10 billion DRAM project halted, loads of Chinese companies’ attempted takeover of US companies have been thwarted by the White House and China goods may …

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u-blox has integrated a PCB antenna into its BLE 5  NINA-B306/316 modules. The trapezoidal printed antenna, technology licensed from Proant AB, enable superior performance transmission and reception of data in a small form factor. By moving the antenna to the PCB, manufacturers can now implement the NINA-B3 family into even smaller form factors. The NINA-B306/316 …

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Thalia Design Automation has introduced advanced analogue schematic porting capabilities within its AMALIA analog design automation tool suite. Configured for users of TSMC, Global Foundries, UMC, SMIC, and in-house technologies of Tier 1 design companies, the AMALIA schematic porting capability claims to achieve design time savings of up to 50% in analogue migration projects. “Process migration – moving IP …

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IC production in China represented 15.3% of its $155 billion IC market in 2018, up from 12.6% five years earlier in 2013, says IC Insights, which forecasts that this share will increase by 5.2 percentage points from 2018 to 20.5% in 2023.   Figure 1 Currently, China-based IC production is forecast to exhibit a very …

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Renesas reported Q4 sales 11% down y-o-y at $1.67 billion and profits down 4.9% y-o-y at $191 million. For the full year of 2018, sales were down 3.3% y-o-y at $6.7 billion and profits were down 2.1% y-o-y at $1 billion. For Q1 it forecasts sales of $1.3-5 billion. “In our full year 2018 and …

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Vishay has announced an AlGaN mid-power ultra-violet LED for water purification, air purification, surface sterilisation, medical disinfection, and portable sanitisers. Called VLMU35CM00-280-120, it comes in a 3.5 x 3.5 x 1.2mm surface-ceramic mount package with a quartz window. Because of this construction, the firm is claiming “extremely long lifetime” – however, nowhere in the data sheet nor the product …

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What are the most popular topics covered? The success of Chinese OEMs, Tesla buying the ultracapacitor specialist Maxwell Technologies, supercomputer research,  Diodes buying the old Natsemi fab at Greenock and ST buys a SiC wafer supplier…

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Wise commenter of this parish Steve K posted a comment on this story about bees that can add and subtract, which reminded me of some spider research I read about a while ago. In that research, a spider-eating spider was confronted by two platforms, each supported on a thin twisty pole – the two poles were …

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On August 6th 1968 the San Jose Mercury News carried the following story:

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