US researchers have made a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) using graphene and two other two-dimensional materials: tantalum sulphide and boron nitride. This is the first useful device that exploits charge-density wave modulation of current through a 2D material, claims the University of California Riverside, which worked with the University of Georgia. Graphene can conducts electrons rapidly, but …

VCO made from graphene, TaS2 and BN 2D materials

One sign that you are getting old? Games that you played in your youth now have antique value. And we are even talking video games!

What are the most valuable video games in the world?

It comes from our Engineer in Wonderland blog – see Stealth comms 100 years ago, in the trenches of World War One – and was sparked by a recent BBC Radio 4 play mentioning phones in WWI in passing.

Stealth Comms from the WWI trenches

RF Com is to demonstrate a 10Gbit/s point-to-point wireless link across London in August, using millimetre-wave equipment from microwave firm Elva-1. Intended for 4G and LTE telecoms back-haul, the link can also bridge fibre-optic cables across rivers and sensitive areas like historic town centres, RF Com MD Ian Cains told Electronics Weekly. Corporate campus networks, IPTV, …

10Gbit/s wireless link in London

Sometimes you’d think semiconductor M&A is a new idea but there’ve been acquisition sprees before and sometimes for better reasons than the financially motivated buy-and-sack acquisitions of recent times. Back in 2005, Intersil was consolidating after a spree by putting its money into new product development. The spree saw Intersil buying Elantec in 2002, followed …

When M&A Was Creative

LEDvance is still part of Osram for now, but is officially a separate entity from the chips, smart lighting, and automotive portion of the technology company.

AWS Config now allows you to delete the configuration recorder using the AWS SDK or CLI.  

AWS CloudTrail allows you to look up API calls and notable events that contain relevant details such as the user identity and source IP address of the API caller, and the AWS resources impacted by the API call. With the new capability, you can also access the configuration details of impacted resources and history of changes in AWS Config.  

Starting today, you can integrate with AWS Service Catalog user actions using the API and CLI. Previously, you could integrate with AWS Service Catalog only through the AWS Management Console. Now you can automate call patterns or integrate with your private console. The AWS Service Catalog API and console now support AWS CloudTrail logging.

We are proud to announce the availability of the AWS IoT SDK for Java and the AWS IoT SDK for Python for AWS IoT.