The AWS Deep Learning AMIs for Ubuntu and Amazon Linux now come with advanced optimizations for TensorFlow 1.7 tailored to deliver higher-performance training across Amazon EC2 C5 and P3 instances. 

You can now use Apache Spark 2.3.0, Apache HBase 1.4.2, and Presto 0.194 on Amazon EMR release 5.13.0. Spark 2.3.0 adds several new features and updates, including continuous processing mode in Structured Streaming for lower end-to-end latency, an improved ORC file format reader that supports vectorized reads and improves scan throughput, PySpark and Pandas interoperability improvements. improvements. HBase 1.4.2 and Presto 0.194 includes various bug fixes and improvements. Additionally, the AWS SDK included on your Amazon EMR clusters is now updated to 1.11.297. 

Users of the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora can now create quick, efficient database clones. Cloning is useful for a number of purposes including application development, testing, database updates, and running analytical queries.

The Electronic Design System Design (ESD) Alliance reports increases in industry revenue from Q3 2016 to Q4 2017, and eight consecutive years of growth. Overall industry revenue increased 10.7% to $2218.6m in Q4 2017, from Q4 2016’s $2455m. The highest growth was in the Americas, where revenues increased 19.5% in the period, followed by Asia-Pacific region …

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Vicor has announced a 12-48V non-isolated up converter to support 48V high-performance GPUs in data centres with legacy 12V power distribution. NBM2317S14B5415T00 converts 750W continuously (1kW peak) through a 23 x 17 x 7.4mm surface-mount SM-ChiP package with >98% peak efficiency. “The NBM supports state-of-the-art 48V input GPUs using power-on-package [PoP] modular current multipliers [MCMs] driven …

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Mouser will be the lead distribution sponsor for the NXP Cup, a global competition where student teams build, program, and race model cars around a track. The EMEA finals of the NXP Cup will take place at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) in Erlangen, Germany. The NXP Cup challenges student teams from around …

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Lancashire electronics manufacturer Scorpion Automotive is sponsoring a team in the British Superbike Championship, through its specialist motorcycle brand Datatool. The team is Team WD40 of GR Motosport, and Datatool logos will be seen on motorcycles ridden by Mason Law, Alastair Seeley and Liam Delves throughout the 2018 Championship Series. “Our sponsorship of GR Motorsport is a great opportunity …

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One rather hopes, but one suspects not, that people will desert Facebook in their zillions. Otherwise social media sites will think they can get away with murder. The highest profile Facebook Leaver is Steve Wozniak who told USA Today that he is fed up social media sites’ careless attitude to peoples’ private information. “Users provide …

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The 25 most prolific applicants for patents at the European Patent Office last year were : 1.HUAWEI. 2 398 2.SIEMENS. 2 220 3.LG. 2 056 4.SAMSUNG. 2 016 5.QUALCOMM 1 854 6.ROYAL PHILIPS 1 733 7.UNITED TECHNOLOGIES 1 719 8.INTEL. 1 435 9.ROBERT BOSCH. 1 412 10.ERICSSON. 1 373 11.GENERAL ELECTRIC. 1 372 12.BASF. 1 …

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TSMC says March revenues grew 60% on February revenues and 20.8% on March 2017 revenues to reach $3.5 billion.  Revenues for January through March 2018 were $8.5 billion, an increase of 6.1% compared to the same period in 2017

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