X-FAB Silicon Foundries today announced the first winners of its annual First-Time-Right Award and semi-annual X-Cite Award. iC-Haus GmbH and New Japan Radio each won the First-Time-Right award for mastering significant implementation challenges in developing analogue and mixed-signal ICs that fulfill the target specification at first design iteration. Fabless semiconductor company MinDCet NV won the …

X-FAB presents First-Time-Right and X-Cite awards

You’re having your lunch by the sea in some sunny spot when, out of the corner of your eye, something weird happens. It’s a bloke rising from the sea on two columns of water. That contraption was invented by Franky Zapata, a 38 year-old former professional pilot and three times world jet ski champion. Now …

Viva Zapata

Let’s celebrate Solar Impulse, which has just completed the first round-the-world solar flight. A ground-breaking feat indeed.

Picture of the Day: Solar Impulse completes round-the-world flight

University of Illinois researchers have developed a way to wet-etch tall clean fins for finfets, and have picked an unusual transistor to implement. It works for indium phosphide, but not for silicon – yet. The aim was to etch tall fins with vertical sides and few surface blemishes, and build a suitable transistor on the …

Updated: Novel wet etch and unusual transistor make better finfets

Thanks to IC Insights for this – the top ten capex spenders this year:

Top Ten Semi Capex Spenders In 2016

Eaton has announced a joint offer of its LED luminaires combined with gateway modules, sensors, and control panels from NuLEDs that can together yield a Power over Ethernet (PoE) connected SSL system.

We are pleased to announce the expansion of the Snowball service to EU (Frankfurt) region. With this launch, AWS Import/Export Snowball is now available in the eight regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (India), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS GovCloud (US). 

AWS IoT now supports Thing Types in the Thing Registry. Thing Types allow you to effectively manage your catalogue of devices by defining common characteristics for devices that belong to the same device category. In addition, a Thing associated with a Thing Type can now have up to 50 attributes including 3 searchable attributes.

To learn more about the Thing Registry and Thing Types visit the AWS IoT site or AWS developer documentation .  

Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML) now publishes your CloudWatch metrics in the Amazon ML console, making it even easier to use and access these graphs. Currently, Amazon ML publishes metrics to CloudWatch, enabling you to monitor the performance of your models in production. As part of the ML model report, you can view recent CloudWatch metrics related to the model. Now with a single click from the Amazon ML console, you can directly to go the view of metrics for that model in CloudWatch to get further detail.

A new pricing model for our Developer Support plan has been launched, reducing the entry cost from $49 per month to $29 per month, while providing the same level of customer service and support. As of July 26th, 2016 all new AWS accounts subscribing to Developer Support will receive the new pricing, set at the greater of $29 or 3% of monthly AWS spend.