Leti and Israeli ReRAM start-up Weebit Nano are to collaborate to develop ReRAM memory technology based on silicon oxide (SiOx).

Read full article: Leti lines up with Weebit Nano for ReRAM development

Intel has done a deal with the private equity fund Texas Pacific Group to spin off its security group which includes McAfee bought by Intel in 2010 for $7.7 billion. Under the deal a jv is formed in which Intel owns 49% of the security group and TPG has 51%. TPG will pay Intel $3.1 …

Read full article: Intel sells 51% of McAfee

SEMI says fab equipment spending will grow 4.1% year-on-year in 2016 and 10.6% in 2017.

Read full article: Fab spending to grow this year and next, says SEMI

Volvo is claiming a first for a self-driving truck: operation in a mine. Operating underground in the Kristineberg  zinc, copper, lead, gold and silver mine in northern Sweden, the truck will drive back and forth from the surface to 1,320 metres underground over 7km of twisting tunnels. “This is the world’s first fully self-driving truck …

Read full article: Self-driving truck goes mining

LG’s new flagship smartphone, the V20, is the first phone to feature the new Android system preloaded, version 7.0 codenamed Nougat.

Read full article: Gadget Watch: LG V20 heralds Android Nougat

Globalfoundries launches its 12nm FD-SOI semiconductor technology, called 12FDX, offering the industry’s first multi-node FD-SOI roadmap.

Read full article: GloFo launches 12nm FD-SOI at Dresden

Back in 1962, when Fairchild was five years old, a newly minted PhD joined the company. He found it “a marvellous place to go to work for a scientist type – they had all this fancy latest equipment and so on, and they had a policy then that new PhDs could work on any project …

Read full article: Fable: The PhD Who Wanted To Sell Things

The WICOP series of CSP LEDs are among the first CSPs in the industry to be produced in high volume for general lighting applications and deliver efficacy of 210 lm/W.

We are pleased to announce that you can now enable HTTP/2 for your Amazon CloudFront distributions to improve the performance of your web content delivered to clients that support the new HTTP/2 protocol. 

You can now more easily integrate cloud-based, mobile backend features (e.g. user identity, NoSQL database, push notifications, and mobile analytics) with your existing mobile apps in a few steps using AWS Mobile Hub. This makes it easier for you to start leveraging mobile backend features powered by AWS services in your existing mobile apps.