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.

Amazon RDS SQL Server now supports Local Time Zones. You can now set the time zone for your Amazon RDS for SQL Server instances to the local time zone for your application.  

We are excited to announce a new edge location in Mumbai, India (Asia-Pacific) for Amazon CloudFront. This is the second edge location for Mumbai and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 61.

Globalfoundries is running 7nm finfet test chips incorporating customers’ IP at its Fab 8 in Saratoga County, New York. GloFo is skipping 10nm and going straight from 16/14nm to 7nm. The 7nm technology is expected to be ready for customer product design starts in the second half of 2017, with ramp to risk production in …

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Globalfoundries intends to offer embedded MRAM on its 22nm FD-SOI (FDX) process for customer prototyping and to have it in volume production in SoCs in 2018. GloFo says that eMRAM is scalable beyond 22nm and it intends to make it available on both its Finfet and FD-SOI processes. GloFo says that can its 22FDX eMRAM …

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The peace of Europe has held for 71 years and NATO has to be thanked for that. Would a European army not subject to democratic control be a better guarantor of peace? This is the proposition of Jean-Claude Juncker who may well be thinking, like Mao, that “political power grows out of the barrel of …

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SEMI’s August book-to-bill ratio was 1.03. August bookings were $1.75 billion – down 2.3% on July’s $1.80 billion, and is 5% higher than the August 2015 level of $1.67 billion. August billings Were $1.71 billion – the same as July’s and 8.4% higher than the August 2015 level of $1.58 billion. “The book-to-bill ratio has …

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