In the latest of a series on the EW BrightSparks of 2017 we highlight Roger Thornton, Principal Hardware Engineer at the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

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Data analysts CB Insights have taken the micky out of the analyst industry over what they call they call “the BS of market sizings”. They quote a  market analyst describing his methodology for sizing the handset market: “My report was due and I didn’t have much time and my boss told me to look at …

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Last year’s $17.5 billion acquisition of Alcatel’s networking business has helped Nokia to build the world’s fastest router. In Q4, Nokia intends to launch a petabit-class router called the 7950 for the core network and the 7750 router for the edge of the network. The 7750 delivers up to 4.8 terabits per slot. The current …

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The global handset baseband processor market grew 5% on year to reach $22.3 billion in 2016, according to Strategy Analytics. Qualcomm, MediaTek, Samsung LSI, Spreadtrum and HiSilicon grabbed the top-five baseband revenue share spots during the year. Qualcomm maintained its baseband leadership with 50% revenue share, followed by MediaTek with 24% revenue share and Samsung …

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Reactive Group, the Reading data storage and networking specialist , has bought  Arraid, the Phoenix manufacturer of replacement data storage products for ageing disk, tape and floppy drives on legacy computer systems. Reactive will revamp Arraid’s replacement drives with SSD technology. “The acquisition of Arraid significantly expands our existing ‘Through Life Support’ capabilities with regard …

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Western Digital has applied to the Superior Court of California for an injunction to stop the sale of Toshiba’s chip business. “Attempts to circumvent our contractual rights have left us with no choice but to take this action,” Western Digital CEO o Steve Milligan, “left unchecked, Toshiba would pursue a course that clearly violates these …

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I took my eye off the ball last year and missed a single chip public key cryptography processor IC from Maxim, aimed at folk who don’t have a deep knowledge in security. The firm’s claim is that: customers don’t need to write firmware and they get a comprehensive set of crypto services, secure key storage and …

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Yorkshire-based force-sensing firm Peratech has won another design in, inside what it claims is the world’s first computer mouse with force-sensitive analogue buttons. Aimed at gaming, the Z mouse from Swiftpoint is the first mouse with pivot, tilt and roll, enabling users to access dozens of different button actions while barely moving their fingers, said …

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Smart Grow Systems launches SSL family for vertical-farming applications ranging from cannabis to hops to orchids that have typically been grown in single layers.

You can now use the AWS Deep Learning AMIs with Apache MXNet v0.10 and TensorFlow v1.1 for Amazon Linux and Ubuntu in US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). The AWS Deep Learning AMIs are also available in the following public AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland).