The dream of the universal memory – a memory that is dense, fast to read, fast to write, non-volatile, low power, enduring and fits all memory applications – has eluded the industry for 50 years. In the late 60s such a memory was developed by Bell Labs. It was as dense as hard disc and …

Fable: Failing Memory

DragonFly 2020 is a 3D printer that can print PCBs, including flexies, from Israel-based Nano Dimension. Due to be available later this year, the printer uses a combination of nano-particle conductive and dielectric inks and can print multi-layer PCBs. Most recently, it filed a patent on a way of printing conductors with printed shields to cut …

3D printer makes PCBs

Leti, the French semiconductor tech centre, is working with ARaymondlife, a device manufacturer for the IVD industry, to develop medical devices, especially in the field of microfluidic cartridge analysis. The aim is to create portable bio-med systems which can reduced the cost of sample analysis. Leti CEO Marie Semeria, writes: “This partnership combines our competencies …

Leti signs deal to bring medical device tech to market

The poor wretched IoT didn’t need this. Hardly out of its pram, the struggling infant has taken a kicking from Google. Google subsidiary Nest has pulled support for its Revolv home hub and, in so doing, has caused a media hoo-ha of considerable proportions. That’s because the Revolv hub doesn’t work without continuing Google support. …

IoT Gets A Kicking

Today, we made it easier for you to configure trust relationships between your AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition)—also known as Microsoft AD—and your on-premises Microsoft Active Directory domains. Establishing trust relationships requires conditional forwarders , which resolve Domain Name System (DNS) queries between the domain names of the trusting directories. You now can more easily configure conditional forwarders using the Directory Service console, which eliminates the need to install DNS Manager on a Microsoft Windows Server instance in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). 

You can now develop your AWS Lambda functions using Node.js 4.3.2 in addition to Node.js 0.10.4. In addition to the leveraging new features in Node.js 4.3 such as ES6 support , Lambda functions written in Node.js 4.3 can now use standard Node.js callback conventions to specify error or return values for the function execution. Previously, returning values from a Lambda function required the use of methods specific to the Lambda programming model. See our documentation to learn more about implementing callbacks within Lambda functions.

We continuously enhance our technical courses to stay current with the pace of AWS platform updates and incorporate student feedback. We have made substantial updates to our two foundational training courses to better provide students with actionable knowledge to get started creating solutions with AWS and a path to advanced learning.

AWS IoT is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) region.

You can now select from two additional deployment policies, immutable and rolling with additional batch, when deploying application code using AWS Elastic Beanstalk. This is in addition to the two existing deployment policies that Elastic Beanstalk currently supports (i.e. rolling, all at once). You can now select one of these four deployment policies when updating your applications. Elastic Beanstalk also lets you perform DNS-based blue/green updates in addition to the four deployment policies.

Chip industry revenues were 1.9% down on 2014 at $334 billion last year, according to Gartner, in contrast to IHS’ estimate of $347 billion. Big fallers in y-o-y semiconductor revenues were Qualcomm at 16.7%, Micron at 15.1% and Toshiba at 15.1%. “2015 saw mixed performance with optoelectronics, non-optical sensors, analog and ASIC all reporting revenue growth …

Semiconductor revenues fall to $334bn