The conventional view is that the semiconductor industry is consolidating, but Wally Rhines CEO of Mentor Graphics, told the GSA Forum in Munich this morning that it is not consolidating despite the M&A frenzy of 2015. “Traditionally we’re a de-consolidating industry”, Rhines told the Forum. Rhines pointed out that in 1972 the company with the …
GSA Forum: Semiconductor start-up investment may be coming back
Reluctance to invest in semiconductor start-ups could be changing, it was stated at the GSA’s European Executive Forum in Munich this week. “The problem has been the lack of exits – 25 in 2009, 9 in 2015,” Jean-Michel Deligny managing director at London-based investor Silverpeak, told the Forum, “but now it could be that semiconductor …
GSA Forum: Semiconductor start-up investment may be coming back
Intel confirms 12,000 job cuts and restructuring
Intel is restructuring – away from PC processors and towards server and mobile chips. “The data centre and IoT businesses are Intel’s primary growth engines, with memory and FPGAs accelerating these opportunities,” said the firm. Electronics Weekly looked into likely Intel job cuts two days ago These changes will result in 12,000 employees losing their jobs – which …
US researchers make ‘smallest’ diode from DNA molecules
Researchers at the University of Georgia and at Ben-Gurion University in Israel claim to have demonstrated how nanoscale electronic components can be made from single DNA molecules. According to the study’s lead author, Bingqian Xu, an associate professor in the UGA College of Engineering: “For 50 years, we have been able to place more and …
European Commission charges Google with Android antitrust violations
The European Commission has now formally charged Google with breaking competition rules over its Android mobile operating system.
European Commission charges Google with Android antitrust violations
DLI introduces directional couplers for C X and Ku bands
DLI, part of Knowles, has introduced 10dB and 20dB directional couplers for C, X and Ku bands. Made using thin-film high-permittivity temperature-stable materials , they are intended for commercial, military and space microwave applications. “The four port couplers are excellent for high frequency signal monitoring applications where board space is a premium and quality power …
Cree extends RSW LED street light family, adds XP-G3 LED
The light-guide-based RSW LED street light family now includes models that extend to 210W and 23,000 lm while the packaged LED business within Cree has rolled out the third-generation of the XP-G LED family.
SSL networks and controls: Lutron, Osram, Daintree, EnOcean, and more
Leading into LightFair International, there has been a flurry of activity in the network and control area for LED-based lighting led by Lutron’s introduction of the new Vive platform, and new partnerships among a number of industry stalwarts.
EBS introduces two new low-cost, high-throughput HDD volume types
Starting today, you can save up to 50% on Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) by launching Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) clusters with two new EBS volumes, Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) and Cold HDD (sc1). These new volume types offer better price performance, improved performance consistency, and higher throughput compared to our existing EBS Magnetic offering. Both are designed for throughput-intensive and big data workloads, which are characterized by having large data sets, large I/O sizes, and sequential I/O patterns. Examples of these workloads include MapReduce, Kafka, log processing, data warehouse, and ETL.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Introduces Managed Platform Updates
You can now choose to have your AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments automatically update to the latest version of the underlying platform running your application during a specified maintenance window. Elastic Beanstalk regularly releases new versions of supported platforms (i.e., Java, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, Python, .NET, Go, and Docker) with operating system, web & application server, and language & framework updates. Previously, you had to manually initiate updates to your Elastic Beanstalk environments using the Elastic Beanstalk console, command line interface (CLI), or API. Now, you can simply select a weekly maintenance window and have Elastic Beanstalk automatically update the platform version of your environment during that window.