Another semiconductor company is using crowd-funding to find the investment needed to bring a product to production and into the commercial market. Lime Microsystems has started a crowd-funding campaign to bring their LimeSDR software defined radio platform into full-scale production. The company is hoping to raise $500,000 to fund the final stages of development and …

Crowd funding changing the game for chip firms

After Micron bought Elpida it was expected that the memory industry would consolidate around four players Samsung, Micron, Toshiba/SanDisk and Hynix. But, according to Bernstein analyst Mark Newman, Samsung’s strategy is to expand its shares of the DRAM and NAND markets from its current 40% to 50% each. This will hit competitors Hynix and Micron …

Operation Crush at Samsung

Poor old Tsinghua has had another investment bid rejected – this time by the Taiwan assembly house SPIL (Siliconware Precision Industries). Tsinghua had offered to buy 25% of SPIL for $600 million. The sale to Tsinghua would have thwarted a bid by fellow Taiwanese assembly company ASE to take over SPIL. The Taiwan Fair Trade …

Tsinghua rebuffed again

We are thrilled to announce 2 new AWS Direct Connect locations. The new locations are at EdgeConneX in Portland Oregon (supporting our Oregon region), and Global Switch in Singapore (supporting our Singapore region). This brings our total location count up to 26.

You can now log all your API calls to AWS WAF through AWS CloudTrail, the AWS service that records API calls for your account and delivers log files to your Amazon S3 bucket. CloudTrail logs can be used to enable security analysis, track changes to your AWS resources, and aid in compliance auditing. Integrating AWS WAF and CloudTrail lets you determine which requests were made to the AWS WAF API, the source IP address from which each request was made, who made the request, when it was made, and more.

In January, Amazon Web Services announced that longer IDs for EBS volumes and snapshots would be available in April. Starting today, you can opt in to using longer volume and snapshot IDs for EBS and Storage Gateway using APIs or the AWS Management Console.

H2O Innovation is forecasting a drive into the Saudi Arabian desalination chemicals market following its recent deal with provider of specialty chemicals for water and wastewater treatment plants, Chemsbro, whose main customers include the Water and Electricity Ministry of Saudi Arabia, National Water Company, and the Saudi Industrial Property Authority.

The Southern Delivery System (SDS), one of the largest water infrastructure projects completed in the U.S. this century, started delivering water to Colorado Springs customers today.

The draft regulations are aimed at increasing total funding for the state’s Drinking Water Program and providing the State Water Board more flexibility to address priority drinking water issues.

The 19-1 vote in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee-backed bill identifies $4.5 billion worth of water-related infrastructure projects.