ON completes its previously announced $2.4 billion cash acquisition of Fairchild.

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Avnet agrees to sell its IT system distribution and services business to Tech Data in a stock and cash deal worth $2.6bn.

Read full article: Avnet sharpens IoT focus with IT sale

Rohm announces a 10W isolated flyback dc-dc-dc converter for industrial auxillary supplies.

Read full article: Rohm 10W isolated dc-dc converter for industry and solar

Scottish Enterprise is funding prizes of up to £10,000 to technology firms forming collaborative ventures in Scotland. Called the Collaboration Prize 2016/17, it is inviting local companies to pitch an idea for a new collaborative enterprise that will help them to access new markets. This could be a new sector or a geographical market including …

Read full article: Scottish prize fosters collaboration for business success

A group of developers in the  US has used a Raspberry Pi 3 computer as the basis of a self-contained computer engineering kit, dubbed the Boolean Box, for teaching coding to 8 year-olds and up. There is a specific focus to encourage more girls to take up coding. The group of teachers have formed a startup, …

Read full article: Boolean Girl loves coding on Raspberry Pi

Operators of high-performance parallel computers can now gauge their power consumption in detail as the Adept Project releases open-source energy measurement tools. Over its 3-year lifespan, the Edinburgh-based Adept project brought together experts from high-performance computing (HPC) and embedded computing to develop a suite of hardware and software tools that help evaluate and optimise system …

Read full article: How much energy is your supercomputer wasting?

It’s the Finnish LED lighting company’s latest management move aimed at reshaping itself as a digital force.

AWS Cost Explorer is a tool that helps you to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS spending. You can view your spend by service or by linked account, with your choice of daily or monthly granularity. You can also create custom filters based on the accounts, time period, services, or tags that are of particular interest to you.

You can now create YAML-formatted templates to describe your AWS resources and properties in AWS CloudFormation. Now, you have the option to use either YAML-formatted templates or JSON-formatted templates to model and describe your AWS infrastructure. YAML-formatted CloudFormation templates follow the same anatomy as existing JSON-formatted templates and support all the same features.

You can now provision aliases in AWS Key Management Service (KMS). An alias creates a display name for a customer master key. Visit here to learn more.