Miner to pay $3,600 penalty as part of the settlement.

Renovations will start immediately, and the plant is scheduled to reopen in 2018.

Addition of 88 projects brings federal, partner investment to over $2 billion since 2014.

Infineon has issued a statement that it’s lawsuit with Macom is not settled as some Macom statements might suggest. The court has made no decision on the merits, says a Infineon, Macom has neither won the case nor is settlement imminent. The lawsuit should determine whether Macom continues to be licensed to certain Infineon Americas …

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Thanks to IDC for this one, the ten biggest cloud infrastructure suppliers in Q2: $ ODM direct 1.5bn HP 1.3bn Dell 1bn Cisco 846m EMC 534m Lenovo 258m NetApo 251m IBM 229m Huawei. 226m Inspur 196m

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Toshiba has launched JEDEC eMMC Version 5.1 compliant embedded NAND flash memory products supporting AEC-Q100 Grade2 requirements. The line-up offers densities of 8GB, 16GB, 32GB and 64GB. Sample shipments start from today with mass production scheduled for Q2 2017. The products integrate NAND chips fabricated with 15nm process technology with a controller to manage basic …

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AR and VR headsets unit shipments will grow enjoy 108% CAGR between 2015 and 2020, says IDC. The 2020 market is expected to have 76 million unit sales with VR shipping units than AR because it’s cheaper at the moment. More competition and cheaper technology is expected to change that. IDC looks at three headset …

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The government is expected to tighten up on drone use with criminal offences created for people flying drones in no-fly areas. “Some are not aware of the rules or choose to break them putting public safety, privacy and security at risk,” says Avistion Minister Lord Ahmad. A crime of drone misuse could be created. Already, …

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element14 has launched a new Design Challenge for designers and engineers called ‘Safe and Sound’, sponsored by TI. element14 will challenge 15 community members to design a personal safety-oriented wearable device or solution that protects a person from personal and environmental risks, monitors personal health or protects personal property from theft. The application areas for …

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The memory market will grow 10% next year, says IC Insights, and will be worth $85.3 billion as a result of ASP rises in DRAM and NAND. After increasing by more than 20% in both 2013 and 2014, the memory market fell upon difficult times in 2015, says IC Insights. Conditions that would normally be …

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