There was once an engineer who filed a patent application on the microprocessor. 20 years later, the US patent office granted him a patent for “a single chip integrated circuit computer architecture.” Philips did a deal with the engineer to share the revenues from the patent which is estimated to have earned the engineer $150 …

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Premier Farnell, online distributor and supplier of Raspberry Pi has received a £691m takeover bid from US giant Avnet, one of the world’s largest electronics distributors headquartered in Phoenix. Avnet is in a bidding battle for UK-based Premier Farnell, which owns the element14 brand, with Datwyler Technical Components. William Amelio, interim CEO of Avnet, said: The talented …

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Happy days are here again as the semiconductor industry returns to significant growth. The SOX is at a multi-year high and the book-to-Bill ratio is trending positive. By hitting 778, the SOX is up 16.75% YTD, reports Investopedia. Qualcomm is up 22.5%, TI up 30%, Broadcom up 18.7%, and Nvidia up 72%. Last year the …

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Today, we are enhancing the AWS Application Discovery Service to collect information about on-premises VMware environments without requiring on-host agent installation, making it easier and faster for enterprises to assess their environment. 

You can now view the commit history of an AWS CodeCommit repository from the CodeCommit console. This helps you more easily understand the changes made to a repository, who made the changes, and when the changes were made.

Today, we are announcing DNS resolution support for a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) peering connection. You can now enable resolution of public DNS hostnames to private IP addresses when queried from the peered VPC. This functionality is also supported cross-account so the two VPCs can be in different accounts. This feature simplifies DNS setup for VPC peering connections.

This feature makes it easy for developers to add user sign-up, sign-in, and enhanced security functionality to their mobile and web apps. With User Pools, you get a simple, fully managed service for creating and maintaining your own user directory that can scale to hundreds of millions of users. You benefit from the security and privacy best practices of AWS, and retain full control of your user data. This feature is now available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and EU (Ireland).

Join Tom Freyberg from WWi magazine for a news round-up of the global desalination industry.

Ever wondered what it’s like inside the world’s largest seawater reverse osmosis desalination facility? Well now you can find out…

The company expanded its network and capabilities when it recently acquired Houston-based Monarch Separators.